This is a really good point. Yeah, the scaling model is to have local TLYCS chapters organizing volunteers to do this as a regular, rolling semester activity. I hadn’t really considered myself a confounding variable in this sense, because I’m definitely not a master pamphleteer. I’m an engineer by trade, and if this program takes off, I’ll eventually just be another volunteer in the LA area that helps hand out leaflets occasionally. We’re also thinking about splitting crews on Friday distribution days—so I would have a crew that hits up two universities, and there would be another volunteer crew hitting up two different campuses. Any thoughts on this?
I wasn’t sure what the scaling model was, but if there are enough plausible volunteers then this sounds right.
The general point is that you want to try and produce a typical case, not a special case.
This is a really good point. Yeah, the scaling model is to have local TLYCS chapters organizing volunteers to do this as a regular, rolling semester activity. I hadn’t really considered myself a confounding variable in this sense, because I’m definitely not a master pamphleteer. I’m an engineer by trade, and if this program takes off, I’ll eventually just be another volunteer in the LA area that helps hand out leaflets occasionally. We’re also thinking about splitting crews on Friday distribution days—so I would have a crew that hits up two universities, and there would be another volunteer crew hitting up two different campuses. Any thoughts on this?