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#30 - Eva Vivalt on how little social science findings generalize from one study to another

80,000 Hours Podcast

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Is It a Good Idea to Base Your Decisions on Surveys of Opinion?

i feel a little bit of guilt fr i used to work at giving what we can. We pushed this view that, you know, people should base their giving on randamis control trial results are pretty. Now i do just have some doubts about ou now,. whether we had at least strong evidence at the time to know that basing your decisions on that actually is such good advice. There's trat to bealo, but there's a lot to explain to drydan and goverment.

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