Thanks for sharing this! I hadn’t really conceptualized the questions you asked as being “EA” – I had assumed that any sort of international development would need to benchmark on facts like the effectiveness of bed nets. Or at least international development professors would do better than the general public on this kind of thing; “international development is harder than you might think, even if people are pretty poor” seems like a very cold take in IDEV circles?
Thanks for sharing this! I hadn’t really conceptualized the questions you asked as being “EA” – I had assumed that any sort of international development would need to benchmark on facts like the effectiveness of bed nets. Or at least international development professors would do better than the general public on this kind of thing; “international development is harder than you might think, even if people are pretty poor” seems like a very cold take in IDEV circles?
I guess my assumptions were wrong!