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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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Scale and Neglect: A Framework for Cause Prioritization

I was really interested in what you said about this approach of looking at scale neglectedness and tractability for cause prioritization. This framework it seems to guide a lot of people's thinking on this but it sounds like you really struggle to play it so I just want to hear more about that. Do you now think that this is just not a useful framework or you know I want to hear your critiques in more detail? We're trying to do the thing which is expectation in expectation has the most value, then we've got this other thing which is assess causes in terms of scale and neglect and this attractability. It starts to disintegrate that there were these two different things we can say that

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