I’ll need to spend some time reviewing the literature before I try and make further sense of how to best make these tradeoffs.
I had a look at the literature a few weeks ago (skimming some of the studies mentioned here), and, as a result, updated to an intensity of disabling pain 10 % as high as my original one (from 100 to 10 times as intense as fully healthy life). It looks like there are no studies informing the intensity of excruciating pain:
We find it unlikely that the most intense pain experienced is of an Excruciating nature as defined in the Welfare Footprint framework, since this category is by definition associated with extreme and unbearable pain, not tolerated even if for a few seconds (a definition which does not coincide with the description of the patients in the studies above).
Thanks again for all your work and engagement here, I think it’s genuinely quite valuable to be having these conversations!
I had a look at the literature a few weeks ago (skimming some of the studies mentioned here), and, as a result, updated to an intensity of disabling pain 10 % as high as my original one (from 100 to 10 times as intense as fully healthy life). It looks like there are no studies informing the intensity of excruciating pain:
Likewise. Thanks, Matt!