that would be very important as it would mean that SoGive moral weights fail some basic sanity checks
I would recommend my post here. My opinion is—yes—SoGive’s moral weights do fail a basic sanity check.
1 year of averted depression is 4 income doublings 1 additional year of life (using GW life-expectancies for over 5s) is 1.95 income doublings.
ie SoGive would thinks depression is worse than death. Maybe this isn’t quite a “sanity check” but I doubt many people have that moral view.
I do think all this is a somewhat separate discussion from the GWWC list
I think cost-effectiveness is very important for this. StrongMinds isn’t so obviously great that we don’t need to consider the cost.
my main point with the GWWC list was that StrongMinds is not in the big picture actually super out of place with the others, in terms of how evidence-backed it is relative to the others, especially when you consider the big picture of the background academic literature about the intervention rather than their internal data
Yes, this is a great point which I think Jeff has addressed rather nicely in his new post. When I posted this it wasn’t supposed to be a critique of GWWC (I didn’t realise how bad the situation there was at the time) as much as a critique of StrongMinds. Now I see quite how bad it is, I’m honestly at a loss for words.
ie SoGive would thinks depression is worse than death. Maybe this isn’t quite a “sanity check” but I doubt many people have that moral view.
I replied in the moral weights post w.r.t. “worse than death” thing. (I think that’s a fundamentally fair, but fundamentally different point from what I meant re: sanity checks w.r.t not crossing hard lower bounds w.r.t. the empirical effects of cash on well being vs the empirical effect of mental health interventions on well being)
I would recommend my post here. My opinion is—yes—SoGive’s moral weights do fail a basic sanity check.
1 year of averted depression is 4 income doublings
1 additional year of life (using GW life-expectancies for over 5s) is 1.95 income doublings.
ie SoGive would thinks depression is worse than death. Maybe this isn’t quite a “sanity check” but I doubt many people have that moral view.
I think cost-effectiveness is very important for this. StrongMinds isn’t so obviously great that we don’t need to consider the cost.
Yes, this is a great point which I think Jeff has addressed rather nicely in his new post. When I posted this it wasn’t supposed to be a critique of GWWC (I didn’t realise how bad the situation there was at the time) as much as a critique of StrongMinds. Now I see quite how bad it is, I’m honestly at a loss for words.
I replied in the moral weights post w.r.t. “worse than death” thing. (I think that’s a fundamentally fair, but fundamentally different point from what I meant re: sanity checks w.r.t not crossing hard lower bounds w.r.t. the empirical effects of cash on well being vs the empirical effect of mental health interventions on well being)