Hmm...deworming sort of counts as “small* benefit for a large number of people.” I am definitely sympathetic to the idea that small benefits to a large number of people can accumulate. The proper analogy in epidemiology is the Rose theorem:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Geoffrey_Rose_(epidemiologist)#.E2.80.98Population_strategy.E2.80.99
*For a given value of small, of course.
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Hmm...deworming sort of counts as “small* benefit for a large number of people.” I am definitely sympathetic to the idea that small benefits to a large number of people can accumulate. The proper analogy in epidemiology is the Rose theorem:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Geoffrey_Rose_(epidemiologist)#.E2.80.98Population_strategy.E2.80.99
*For a given value of small, of course.