You gave lots of good examples of low-cost high-impact interventions like water chlorination, vaccines and lead removal. I agree that there are far more examples like that, particularly in health & medicine, which we already know about but where the scale of the benefits is underestimated. Water chlorination is a particularly good example because it’s one where the large benefits were expected by experts but were surprising to others.
And thank you for linking to my article on RCTs, the arguments you made above were actually a big part of the reason that I wrote that!
Great post!
You gave lots of good examples of low-cost high-impact interventions like water chlorination, vaccines and lead removal. I agree that there are far more examples like that, particularly in health & medicine, which we already know about but where the scale of the benefits is underestimated. Water chlorination is a particularly good example because it’s one where the large benefits were expected by experts but were surprising to others.
And thank you for linking to my article on RCTs, the arguments you made above were actually a big part of the reason that I wrote that!