Thanks, I’m a big fan of CE and always enjoy reading your reports. But I also miss reading something about what you rule out in your brainstorm phase—which I think could be entertaining and enlightning. I understand this would take a bit of your time, and that your focus is on selecting areas for your incubation programme, but it could help other people evaluate their own cause areas and possible projects.
For instance, you considered (and did not recommend for incubation) three interventions regarding contraception in 2020, and it made me super curious about what other interventions you considered in this area (even if just for a minute), why you ruled them out (maybe it’s just because there was no evidence), what you’d think about other polemical interventions in this area (e.g., advocacy concerning family planning, or preventing adolescent pregnancy, or abortion laws, or sex ed, etc.)...
To add to what Sam said—we are also planning on publishing the other health and development policy ideas that we did full, deep-dive reports on but didn’t end up recommending on our website and at least one of these, our report on air quality, will also be published on the forum!
Hi Ramiro – really good point. We will try to get more of our lists of ideas out into the EA realm, keep your eyes on the forum.
(Unfortunately I can’t promise a list of ideas from the 2020 work on family planning as that was before my time and the staff who worked on that has now left, but hope to get some other ideas lists up online)
Thanks, I’m a big fan of CE and always enjoy reading your reports. But I also miss reading something about what you rule out in your brainstorm phase—which I think could be entertaining and enlightning. I understand this would take a bit of your time, and that your focus is on selecting areas for your incubation programme, but it could help other people evaluate their own cause areas and possible projects.
For instance, you considered (and did not recommend for incubation) three interventions regarding contraception in 2020, and it made me super curious about what other interventions you considered in this area (even if just for a minute), why you ruled them out (maybe it’s just because there was no evidence), what you’d think about other polemical interventions in this area (e.g., advocacy concerning family planning, or preventing adolescent pregnancy, or abortion laws, or sex ed, etc.)...
To add to what Sam said—we are also planning on publishing the other health and development policy ideas that we did full, deep-dive reports on but didn’t end up recommending on our website and at least one of these, our report on air quality, will also be published on the forum!
[I work for CE as Director of Research]
Hi Ramiro – really good point. We will try to get more of our lists of ideas out into the EA realm, keep your eyes on the forum.
(Unfortunately I can’t promise a list of ideas from the 2020 work on family planning as that was before my time and the staff who worked on that has now left, but hope to get some other ideas lists up online)