Hi Siebe—thank you again for your entry! Unfortunately we don’t have capacity to provide feedback on every submission. There were many useful and interesting pieces of work that didn’t receive a prize.
How about public feedback on just the top 4 though? Or even just the #1. I find it odd that, in a competition of this scale, no specific reasons are provided for why you picked these winners.
A lot of people put a lot of effort into these reports. Providing reasons why you pick certain winners seems to be like a basic aspect of running a competition in a way that’s respectful to participants. This helps participants to compare their own submissions and learn from that. (I think the reward for good faith submissions is a nice contribution to that, and I’m grateful for it, but I don’t think it’s a replacement)
Could you elaborate what made the top 4 stand out specifically?
Is there any chance that I could get feedback on my submission, which hasn’t received a prize? https://forum.effectivealtruism.org/posts/njgRDx5cKtSM8JubL/long-covid-mass-disability-and-broad-societal-consequences
Hi Siebe—thank you again for your entry! Unfortunately we don’t have capacity to provide feedback on every submission. There were many useful and interesting pieces of work that didn’t receive a prize.
Thank you Chris, that’s understandable.
How about public feedback on just the top 4 though? Or even just the #1. I find it odd that, in a competition of this scale, no specific reasons are provided for why you picked these winners.
A lot of people put a lot of effort into these reports. Providing reasons why you pick certain winners seems to be like a basic aspect of running a competition in a way that’s respectful to participants. This helps participants to compare their own submissions and learn from that. (I think the reward for good faith submissions is a nice contribution to that, and I’m grateful for it, but I don’t think it’s a replacement)
This is a great point that even just explaining why the submission/s that won did so is useful to other participants