Agree with the risks of presenting such a score. Agree that scores would be very speculative and your credibility intervals would be very wide. But I’d also guess that without this sort of score/summary measure, then it’s very hard to use this research in practical applications?
Perhaps a compromise is to compile these sorts of summary scores, but then to only share them with advocates or researchers that have specific purposes in mind for those figures? This way, if someone wanted to use the summary score to inform an estimate, or make some decision based off of your research here, they could do so and it would only take them a few minutes to send you an email, rather than several hours trying to come up with an equivalent estimate, using your research as a starting point.
It’s still possible that the figures would become more widely known if people find the numbers indirectly, e.g. in citations. But this seems unlikely to affect many people (unfortunately, I don’t imagine this research going viral).
PS thanks very much for this very thorough seeming research on this difficult topic!
Agree with the risks of presenting such a score. Agree that scores would be very speculative and your credibility intervals would be very wide. But I’d also guess that without this sort of score/summary measure, then it’s very hard to use this research in practical applications?
Perhaps a compromise is to compile these sorts of summary scores, but then to only share them with advocates or researchers that have specific purposes in mind for those figures? This way, if someone wanted to use the summary score to inform an estimate, or make some decision based off of your research here, they could do so and it would only take them a few minutes to send you an email, rather than several hours trying to come up with an equivalent estimate, using your research as a starting point.
It’s still possible that the figures would become more widely known if people find the numbers indirectly, e.g. in citations. But this seems unlikely to affect many people (unfortunately, I don’t imagine this research going viral).
PS thanks very much for this very thorough seeming research on this difficult topic!