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How to measure impact, and why we may have all been doing it wrong (with Michael Plant)

Clearer Thinking with Spencer Greenberg

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How to Quantify the Effectiveness of Interventions

When I got thinking about this during my PhD thesis, I thought well okay maybe we need to go back to the drawing board on what our global priorities are. There was this kind of idea that was part of the perspective of aphroism zeitgeist at least a few years ago which is called cause prioritization. What do you do? You assess problems in terms of scale and neglect and disinteractability. This is some sort of mechanism you can use like prior to actually digging in and assessing things with their cost effect. One of the things I did was I did this sort of back at the envelope calculation looking at strong minds which is a mental health charity who provides interpersonal group therapy

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