Please correct me if I’m being silly, but I was looking to evaluate animal advocacy against corporate campaigns and came up with an estimate far lower than Open Philanthropy’s one (at least 2 orders of magnitude lower).
I then reviewed their work and found a very odd set of logic. Open Phil claims
Counting just the ~$2.5 million spent on corporate cage-free campaigning over the last few years, and conservatively assuming that the campaigns only accelerated pledges by five years, these campaigns will spare about 250 hens a year of cage confinement per dollar spent.
That seems to imply that the intervention would save 2500000×250=625000000 hens. But that’s 2 and a half times the number of hens even in confinement! Have I made an error? What assumptions am I missing?
[Question] How many chickens are being saved by corporate campaigns?
Please correct me if I’m being silly, but I was looking to evaluate animal advocacy against corporate campaigns and came up with an estimate far lower than Open Philanthropy’s one (at least 2 orders of magnitude lower).
I then reviewed their work and found a very odd set of logic. Open Phil claims
But then later claims:
That seems to imply that the intervention would save 2500000×250=625000000 hens. But that’s 2 and a half times the number of hens even in confinement! Have I made an error? What assumptions am I missing?