We really appreciate this type of thoughtful engagement. We find a lot of value in hearing well-reasoned critiques of our research and weaknesses in our communication: thank you for sharing this!
Facilitating feedback like this is a big part of why we hold transparency as one of our values. You’re right that it shouldn’t be as difficult as it is to understand why we made the decisions we did in our model and how our deworming estimates rely on priors and evidence. Our deworming cost-effectiveness analysis (and frankly other models as well) falls short of our transparency goals–this is a known shortfall in how we communicate about our research, and we are working on improving this.
We want to take the time to more deeply consider the points raised in this post, and do plan on sharing more thinking about our approach. Thanks again for your critical engagement with our research.
Hi, Joel, Sam, and Michael -
We really appreciate this type of thoughtful engagement. We find a lot of value in hearing well-reasoned critiques of our research and weaknesses in our communication: thank you for sharing this!
Facilitating feedback like this is a big part of why we hold transparency as one of our values. You’re right that it shouldn’t be as difficult as it is to understand why we made the decisions we did in our model and how our deworming estimates rely on priors and evidence. Our deworming cost-effectiveness analysis (and frankly other models as well) falls short of our transparency goals–this is a known shortfall in how we communicate about our research, and we are working on improving this.
We want to take the time to more deeply consider the points raised in this post, and do plan on sharing more thinking about our approach. Thanks again for your critical engagement with our research.