One thing that is very confusing to me here: the experiment comparing entrepreneurs in charity entrepreneurship and random folk in in Kenya.
It seems pretty obvious to me that the value of treating a charity entrepreneur is at least a hundred or a thousand times greater than treating a random person. So I don’t know why you would compare the two, given that if it works for the entrepreneurs at all, it’d be clearly higher impact. Assuming it works for the entrepreneurs, you’re not going to get an effect a hundred or a thousand times greater for the Kenyans.
I’m going to assume you mean comparison not experiment as we did no experiment comparing the two demographics.
The comparison was to show how much easier it is to treat high-functioning western demographics than it is to treat lower-functioning LMIC demographics. One common misconception I run into a lot is that treating people in LMICs is easier because there’s still “lower-hanging fruit” yet to be treated. I wanted to show some statistics illustrating that this was not the case by comparing two similar pilots with different demographics
The higher income, higher functioning demographic was easier to recruit, triage, maintain and got comparable results. I think this violates most funder’s expectations.
One thing that is very confusing to me here: the experiment comparing entrepreneurs in charity entrepreneurship and random folk in in Kenya.
It seems pretty obvious to me that the value of treating a charity entrepreneur is at least a hundred or a thousand times greater than treating a random person. So I don’t know why you would compare the two, given that if it works for the entrepreneurs at all, it’d be clearly higher impact. Assuming it works for the entrepreneurs, you’re not going to get an effect a hundred or a thousand times greater for the Kenyans.
I’m going to assume you mean comparison not experiment as we did no experiment comparing the two demographics.
The comparison was to show how much easier it is to treat high-functioning western demographics than it is to treat lower-functioning LMIC demographics. One common misconception I run into a lot is that treating people in LMICs is easier because there’s still “lower-hanging fruit” yet to be treated. I wanted to show some statistics illustrating that this was not the case by comparing two similar pilots with different demographics
The higher income, higher functioning demographic was easier to recruit, triage, maintain and got comparable results. I think this violates most funder’s expectations.
Okay, that makes more sense then.