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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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The Cost of Using Clearer Thinking's Decision Advisor to Make Life Easier

For the cash transfers we had outcome information on measures of happiness and of life satisfaction and standardized measures of mental health so things like depression question there. For the psychotherapy we actually didn't have direct subjective well-being measures but we did have standardized mental health questions. So what was meant is that we could just combine our results with these different things so we have a more kind of statistical power to do the analysis. In terms of the sort of the standard deviation improvement like how effective these interventions were for the cash transfers where we had this different information we found that it didn't really make much difference whether you were measuring it in terms of happiness or life satisfaction or standardized mental health if you did it

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