EA Forum Podcast (Curated & popular) “Expectations Scale with Scale – We Should Be More Scope-Sensitive in Our Funding” by Joey 🔸
TLDR: The shortest version of this argument is very simple: your expectations for an organization should be higher where their budget and staff size are higher. In other words, we should have different expectations for a 20-person organization with a $1.5 million budget than a 2-person $150,000 budget organization.
While this seems pretty clear in the abstract, I find that people tend not to update nearly enough on this when they should. For example, I often see people comparing the total research output of two organizations, yet when I ask about it, they will not know the yearly budget or staff size of either. This is a big problem. As a movement, we want to support efficient and effective organizations, not just organizations that are the biggest, most salient or currently the highest funded.
Budgets and staff
When considering how impressive an organization's output is, one [...]
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Outline:
(00:59) Budgets and staff
(02:47) Comparative size
(04:46) Why this matters
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First published:
November 6th, 2024
Narrated by TYPE III AUDIO.