I don’t understand how that’s possible. If you put 3x the weight on StrongMind’s cost-effectiviness viz-a-vis other charities, changing this must move the needle on cost-effectiveness more than anything else. It’s possible to me it could have been “well into the range of gold-standard” and now it’s “just gold-standard” or “silver-standard”. However if something is silver standard, I can’t see any way in which your cost-effectivness being adjusted down by 1/3rd doesn’t massively shift your rating.
I’d say that the main crux is the fact that our assessment of the quality of evidence for the intervention (item (a)) is based mostly on item 1 (the academic literature) and not on item 2 (data from StrongMinds).
I feel like I’m being misunderstood here. I would be very happy to speak to you (or Ishaan) on the academic literature. I think probably best done in a more private forum so we can tease out our differences on this topic. (I can think of at least one surprise you might not have come across yet).
Ishaan’s work isn’t finished yet, and he has not yet converted his findings into the SoGive framework, or applied the SoGive moral weights to the problem. (Note that we generally try to express our findings in terms of the SoGive framework and other frameworks, such as multiples of cash, so that our results are meaningful to multiple audiences).
Just to reiterate, neither Ishaan nor I have made very strong statements about cost-effectiveness, because our work isn’t finished yet.
I would be very happy to speak to you (or Ishaan) on the academic literature.
That sounds great, I’ll message you directly. Definitely not wishing to misunderstand or misinterpret—thank you for your engagement on this topic :-)
I don’t understand how that’s possible. If you put 3x the weight on StrongMind’s cost-effectiviness viz-a-vis other charities, changing this must move the needle on cost-effectiveness more than anything else. It’s possible to me it could have been “well into the range of gold-standard” and now it’s “just gold-standard” or “silver-standard”. However if something is silver standard, I can’t see any way in which your cost-effectivness being adjusted down by 1/3rd doesn’t massively shift your rating.
I feel like I’m being misunderstood here. I would be very happy to speak to you (or Ishaan) on the academic literature. I think probably best done in a more private forum so we can tease out our differences on this topic. (I can think of at least one surprise you might not have come across yet).
Ishaan’s work isn’t finished yet, and he has not yet converted his findings into the SoGive framework, or applied the SoGive moral weights to the problem. (Note that we generally try to express our findings in terms of the SoGive framework and other frameworks, such as multiples of cash, so that our results are meaningful to multiple audiences).
Just to reiterate, neither Ishaan nor I have made very strong statements about cost-effectiveness, because our work isn’t finished yet.
That sounds great, I’ll message you directly. Definitely not wishing to misunderstand or misinterpret—thank you for your engagement on this topic :-)