Yes indeed that’s what I am suggesting: if a strong bottleneck is mentoring for an org, one approach of “more broadly distributing ressources” might be that programmes increase their student-staff ratio (meaning a bit more self-guided work for each participant but more participants in total)
Prominent and very competitive programmes I was thinking of are SERI MATS and MLAB from redwood, but I think that extreme applicants-participant ratios are true for pretty much all paid and even many non-paid EA fellowships, e.g. PIBBSS or . Thanks for the hint that it may be helpful to mention some of them.
@‘they have more ressources than us’: Why does that matter? If the question is “How can we achieve the most possible impact with the limited ressources we got?”. Then given the extreme competitiveness of these programmes and the early-career-stage most applicants are in, a plausible hypothesis is that scaling up the quantity of these training programmes at the expense of quality is a way to increase total output. And so far it seems to me that this is potentially neglected
Yes indeed that’s what I am suggesting: if a strong bottleneck is mentoring for an org, one approach of “more broadly distributing ressources” might be that programmes increase their student-staff ratio (meaning a bit more self-guided work for each participant but more participants in total)
Prominent and very competitive programmes I was thinking of are SERI MATS and MLAB from redwood, but I think that extreme applicants-participant ratios are true for pretty much all paid and even many non-paid EA fellowships, e.g. PIBBSS or . Thanks for the hint that it may be helpful to mention some of them.
@‘they have more ressources than us’: Why does that matter? If the question is “How can we achieve the most possible impact with the limited ressources we got?”. Then given the extreme competitiveness of these programmes and the early-career-stage most applicants are in, a plausible hypothesis is that scaling up the quantity of these training programmes at the expense of quality is a way to increase total output. And so far it seems to me that this is potentially neglected