Thanks! I think most of the value would be captured by just switching to a single distribution for all countries, but yes having slightly different distributions for each country could be slightly better. My (fairly uninformed) guess would be that the socio-economic status of each of GiveWell’s countries is similar enough that we wouldn’t have much reason to use different distributions.
Thanks! I think most of the value would be captured by just switching to a single distribution for all countries, but yes having slightly different distributions for each country could be slightly better. My (fairly uninformed) guess would be that the socio-economic status of each of GiveWell’s countries is similar enough that we wouldn’t have much reason to use different distributions.