Avoid mistakes and do more good by asking three questions to identify urgent social problems. This method, developed by Open Philanthropy and the Global Priorities Institute, helps compare different areas such as pandemic prevention and global health. Assess scale of the problem using intuition. Example: Leaving mobile chargers plugged in saves only 0.01% of power in Britain.
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