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Two: Rachel Glennerster on global poverty

Effective Altruism: Ten Global Problems – 80000 Hours

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What Fraction of Social Interventions Work?

A year or two ago, we tried to figure out the answer this question oflikeow, what fraction of social interventions work? Ause we've been using this quote from a somebody whos name david anderson, where he said, like most social intervention that quintesta don't work. And so i think we might be. It might be, well, yes, we need some new pasian journal. But but i just don't see how we are ever going to get published if we can't say something like that. Yes, you can't do like, a confidence interval on, like the credences or something like that, across people. I don't know. That was

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