Hello, thank you for writing and sharing this. I read the summary, but since I’m not a full-time paid animal advocate, don’t have the bandwidth to engage with the full report beyond skimming over key sections and doing a few keyword searches.
In that spirit, I wanted to ask about a couple of questions about your estimates/methodology for California Prop 2 (since I looked into it once before, and have some familiarity with it)
1a. (How) Did you take into account the reduction in flock sizes (to think about lives of suffering averted)? 1b. If so (how) did you separate out the effects of avian flu-outbreak that happened at the same time as Prop 2 came into force? 2. (How) did you take into account effects on out-of-California producer effects to comply with the regulations?
PS. Whilst reading the full report, I was struck by use of lots of equations, and started to wonder (as a programmer) if for explaining the modelling and calculations, perhaps sharing code used for the calculation would be better than sharing than the algorithm in natural text form? i.e. if I were a paid full-time researcher the first thing I’d do is work through the report, write up the methods and inputs in code and see if I could reproduce the given numbers (and then start varying assumptions/modelling/inputs).
Hello, thank you for writing and sharing this. I read the summary, but since I’m not a full-time paid animal advocate, don’t have the bandwidth to engage with the full report beyond skimming over key sections and doing a few keyword searches.
In that spirit, I wanted to ask about a couple of questions about your estimates/methodology for California Prop 2 (since I looked into it once before, and have some familiarity with it)
1a. (How) Did you take into account the reduction in flock sizes (to think about lives of suffering averted)?
1b. If so (how) did you separate out the effects of avian flu-outbreak that happened at the same time as Prop 2 came into force?
2. (How) did you take into account effects on out-of-California producer effects to comply with the regulations?
PS. Whilst reading the full report, I was struck by use of lots of equations, and started to wonder (as a programmer) if for explaining the modelling and calculations, perhaps sharing code used for the calculation would be better than sharing than the algorithm in natural text form? i.e. if I were a paid full-time researcher the first thing I’d do is work through the report, write up the methods and inputs in code and see if I could reproduce the given numbers (and then start varying assumptions/modelling/inputs).