The hotline is indeed considered the strongest channel at the moment at my nonprofit for suicide prevention impact, since people who call it do so of their own will and usually in a state of emergency. I would argue that the school workshops are very close to being effective since they also give an opportunity for a 1-on-1 conversation with a lifeline volunteer, albeit face-to-face. But I don’t know how to attribute the percentages here. The GiveWell cost-effectiveness article mentions moral weights, but they are more like philosophical moral judgments of questions about the person affected.
In data science for example the transformers are analyzing a sentence token by predicting the next token in line based on the weights, so if I follow the logical I need to assign cost effectiveness weights to decide how much each channel contributed to effectiveness. I wish there were more studies on this online.
Thank you so much!
The hotline is indeed considered the strongest channel at the moment at my nonprofit for suicide prevention impact, since people who call it do so of their own will and usually in a state of emergency. I would argue that the school workshops are very close to being effective since they also give an opportunity for a 1-on-1 conversation with a lifeline volunteer, albeit face-to-face. But I don’t know how to attribute the percentages here. The GiveWell cost-effectiveness article mentions moral weights, but they are more like philosophical moral judgments of questions about the person affected.
https://www.givewell.org/how-we-work/our-criteria/cost-effectiveness/moral-weights
In data science for example the transformers are analyzing a sentence token by predicting the next token in line based on the weights, so if I follow the logical I need to assign cost effectiveness weights to decide how much each channel contributed to effectiveness. I wish there were more studies on this online.