Hey there! Really appreciate you doing work on this!
As someone who is not well-versed in cost-effectiveness analysis, but is very keen learning about this work—could you make the summary a bit more accessible? When reading it I was like: 1) what the hell is bp/g$
(I know there is a wiki page linked, but I think most people don’t want to click on hyperlinks during the reading of a summary, they just want to decide whether to commit to reading the post.
After I checked the wiki link I realised bp means 0.0001 but after a quick glance I’m still unsure what giga is (note that I’m writing this comment at 1 am, so the fault can definitely be mine)
Thanks for asking, and being keen to learn about this work!
I understand this notation may not be the most easily comprehensible at first sight. Using it more often will arguably make it more understandable in the long-run.
As you say, 1 bp = 0.01 % = 0.0001. 1 G = 10^9, so 1 G$ means 1 billion dollars.
I see this is your 1st comment. Welcome to the EA Forum!
Hey there! Really appreciate you doing work on this!
As someone who is not well-versed in cost-effectiveness analysis, but is very keen learning about this work—could you make the summary a bit more accessible? When reading it I was like: 1) what the hell is bp/g$
(I know there is a wiki page linked, but I think most people don’t want to click on hyperlinks during the reading of a summary, they just want to decide whether to commit to reading the post.
After I checked the wiki link I realised bp means 0.0001 but after a quick glance I’m still unsure what giga is (note that I’m writing this comment at 1 am, so the fault can definitely be mine)
Hi CB,
Thanks for asking, and being keen to learn about this work!
I understand this notation may not be the most easily comprehensible at first sight. Using it more often will arguably make it more understandable in the long-run.
As you say, 1 bp = 0.01 % = 0.0001. 1 G = 10^9, so 1 G$ means 1 billion dollars.
I see this is your 1st comment. Welcome to the EA Forum!
thanks!