Thanks, sawyer! We haven’t done that ourselves for exactly the reasons you mentioned—there were already many degrees of uncertainty in the analysis just based on spotty data availability, so we felt that adding something with that amount of subjectivity would reduce the overall utility of the analysis because some people would agree with our decisions and some wouldn’t. But the lists within species may work as a simple proxy, and the data and code are available to anyone with more investment who would like to make that adjustment themselves. If you’re thinking about doing it and would like to chat, feel free to reach out! It’s my first name @ faunalytics.org.
Totally, that makes sense. I think unfortunately this is beyond my expertise at this point, but I appreciate you offering! For anyone else watching...in particular, I’m envisioning something like the Excel tool created for this SSC adversarial collaboration, where a user can input their subjective “human life-year equivalents” for various animals, then connect that to your data and analysis, and output...something. Maybe new charts, but more realistically something more basic.
That’s a good idea and actually not too hard to implement in the grand scheme of things. It’s not something that will get done right away, but I can add it to the list! And if anyone reading would like to collaborate to produce that, please get in touch!
Thanks, sawyer! We haven’t done that ourselves for exactly the reasons you mentioned—there were already many degrees of uncertainty in the analysis just based on spotty data availability, so we felt that adding something with that amount of subjectivity would reduce the overall utility of the analysis because some people would agree with our decisions and some wouldn’t. But the lists within species may work as a simple proxy, and the data and code are available to anyone with more investment who would like to make that adjustment themselves. If you’re thinking about doing it and would like to chat, feel free to reach out! It’s my first name @ faunalytics.org.
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Totally, that makes sense. I think unfortunately this is beyond my expertise at this point, but I appreciate you offering! For anyone else watching...in particular, I’m envisioning something like the Excel tool created for this SSC adversarial collaboration, where a user can input their subjective “human life-year equivalents” for various animals, then connect that to your data and analysis, and output...something. Maybe new charts, but more realistically something more basic.
That’s a good idea and actually not too hard to implement in the grand scheme of things. It’s not something that will get done right away, but I can add it to the list! And if anyone reading would like to collaborate to produce that, please get in touch!