I hate to continue to ride this hobby horse, but I wish that questions about mental health as an EA cause area would distinguish between mental health as a global health problem, and mental health for EAs or other capacity-building purposes (or, if not, just leave them out). Conflating them in the same question without a clear disambiguation, especially around prioritisation, makes this data nearly useless because I don’t know what the answerer interpreted it to mean. (I hope it’s not too late to add a clarification now?)
The question should be interpreted as being about the substantive cause area of mental health (https://forum.effectivealtruism.org/topics/mental-health-cause-area), not as a subset of movement building by providing mental health services for EAs, so we’ve added ‘not as part of EA movement building’ to the question to make it clearer.
I hate to continue to ride this hobby horse, but I wish that questions about mental health as an EA cause area would distinguish between mental health as a global health problem, and mental health for EAs or other capacity-building purposes (or, if not, just leave them out). Conflating them in the same question without a clear disambiguation, especially around prioritisation, makes this data nearly useless because I don’t know what the answerer interpreted it to mean. (I hope it’s not too late to add a clarification now?)
Thanks for the feedback huw.
The question should be interpreted as being about the substantive cause area of mental health (https://forum.effectivealtruism.org/topics/mental-health-cause-area), not as a subset of movement building by providing mental health services for EAs, so we’ve added ‘not as part of EA movement building’ to the question to make it clearer.
Thank you so much! That’s a great clarification ❤️