This 100x change is huge, and I think deserves a prominent note in the main text, either significantly rewriting the cost-effetiveness section based on this number, or at least putting something like [EDIT: this cost-effectiveness calculation is no longer endorsed by the author, due to a mistake in the paper cited].
That said, I think this is not as irreconcilable as it seems, as the new 149k DALYs figure is only referring to Punjab, Haryana and Delhi, which account for ~5% of India’s population, whereas the 66k deaths figure is for India as a whole. It is not as simple as just multiplying through by ~20 to get the DALYs for the whole country, as the impression i get is that those states are unusually bad for crop residue burning.
Great post though, I would be excited to see more work on this :)
Yes, I will make the change prominently after Christmas. Even though it’s in three states, those are the states that experience the vast majority of pollution, so I’m still very surprised.
This 100x change is huge, and I think deserves a prominent note in the main text, either significantly rewriting the cost-effetiveness section based on this number, or at least putting something like [EDIT: this cost-effectiveness calculation is no longer endorsed by the author, due to a mistake in the paper cited]. That said, I think this is not as irreconcilable as it seems, as the new 149k DALYs figure is only referring to Punjab, Haryana and Delhi, which account for ~5% of India’s population, whereas the 66k deaths figure is for India as a whole. It is not as simple as just multiplying through by ~20 to get the DALYs for the whole country, as the impression i get is that those states are unusually bad for crop residue burning. Great post though, I would be excited to see more work on this :)
Yes, I will make the change prominently after Christmas. Even though it’s in three states, those are the states that experience the vast majority of pollution, so I’m still very surprised.