I don’t get why the EA Forum Team prioritized ‘RCTs are good actually’ (#2) above this post (#4) in its ‘EA Forum Digest #183’? I’d appreciate an explanation for this prioritization especially given that:
This post has 4x more upvotes (287 compared to 69 for ‘RCTs are good actually’)
This post has 5x more comments (32 compared to 6)
Integrity is a guiding principle of CEA, which the EA Forum Team is part of. ‘RCTs are good actually’ questions the relative importance of integrity processes in doing RCTs. In contrast, this post questions integrity processes in EA.
(I hope this comment comes across as a healthy critique and genuine query, not a cynical ‘gotcha’ attempt. This post went up not long before the digest email was sent so I’m guessing this has something to do with it. Quoted numbers are as of 10:30am Canberra time on 4 April, eleven hours after the digest arrived in my email inbox)
I wouldn’t read too much into the exact ordering in the EA Forum digest. At least if I was making such a digest I would mostly be busy filling it up at all, and it would feel unnecessarily nitpicky and stressful to me to be judged on even the relative ordering of the articles I put in there.
Ah fair call I can see how my comment was nitpicky
I am still concerned about the promotion of the (well-intentioned) RCT post that seemed to undervalue integrity processes for doing RCTs on vulnerable people (in my view). But I appreciate I could have misinterpreted this.
In any case, I can also see that my comment could be experienced as stressful or judgey by the Forum team AND author of the RCT post. I’m genuinely really sorry if this has happened. I appreciate you’ve taken on difficult and important tasks and trust you have the best of intentions with them :) Thanks for your efforts and I’ll keenly be more tactful in future.
I don’t get why the EA Forum Team prioritized ‘RCTs are good actually’ (#2) above this post (#4) in its ‘EA Forum Digest #183’? I’d appreciate an explanation for this prioritization especially given that:
This post has 4x more upvotes (287 compared to 69 for ‘RCTs are good actually’)
This post has 5x more comments (32 compared to 6)
Integrity is a guiding principle of CEA, which the EA Forum Team is part of. ‘RCTs are good actually’ questions the relative importance of integrity processes in doing RCTs. In contrast, this post questions integrity processes in EA.
(I hope this comment comes across as a healthy critique and genuine query, not a cynical ‘gotcha’ attempt. This post went up not long before the digest email was sent so I’m guessing this has something to do with it. Quoted numbers are as of 10:30am Canberra time on 4 April, eleven hours after the digest arrived in my email inbox)
I wouldn’t read too much into the exact ordering in the EA Forum digest. At least if I was making such a digest I would mostly be busy filling it up at all, and it would feel unnecessarily nitpicky and stressful to me to be judged on even the relative ordering of the articles I put in there.
Ah fair call I can see how my comment was nitpicky
I am still concerned about the promotion of the (well-intentioned) RCT post that seemed to undervalue integrity processes for doing RCTs on vulnerable people (in my view). But I appreciate I could have misinterpreted this.
In any case, I can also see that my comment could be experienced as stressful or judgey by the Forum team AND author of the RCT post. I’m genuinely really sorry if this has happened. I appreciate you’ve taken on difficult and important tasks and trust you have the best of intentions with them :) Thanks for your efforts and I’ll keenly be more tactful in future.