Ranked is a word with a clear meaning and it’s not what they are doing.
GiveWell writes long charity evaluation and then after having made them evaluates the charities by taking all the quanitative and qualitative information from their report together and make a judgement about which charities perform better on their criteria.
If you look at the scores of the linked document you see that GiveDirectly scores an order of magnitude worse in the “against cash” results tab. Yet, GiveDirectly is still one of the recommended charities. It wouldn’t be if charities would just be ranked by the metric in the results tab.
Most of the time you make a strawman out of something, the real thing is a softened version of what the strawman is. I don’t think that excuses strawmanning in any way when you assert to want to have a constructive discussion.
The extreme transparency that GiveWell has to be able to notice when they make mistakes is also part of their operating philosophy that matter when you are talking about enabling democratic dialog. It’s again quite different then this article that eschews any transparency. Of course you or the outers can say “we care about things besides transparency more” but that’s still a value judgement that puts transparency lower on the list of priorities. I also think that authors that allow you to publish their work without attribution do share responsibility for their work being published without attribution.
Ranked is a word with a clear meaning and it’s not what they are doing.
GiveWell writes long charity evaluation and then after having made them evaluates the charities by taking all the quanitative and qualitative information from their report together and make a judgement about which charities perform better on their criteria.
If you look at the scores of the linked document you see that GiveDirectly scores an order of magnitude worse in the “against cash” results tab. Yet, GiveDirectly is still one of the recommended charities. It wouldn’t be if charities would just be ranked by the metric in the results tab.
Most of the time you make a strawman out of something, the real thing is a softened version of what the strawman is. I don’t think that excuses strawmanning in any way when you assert to want to have a constructive discussion.
The extreme transparency that GiveWell has to be able to notice when they make mistakes is also part of their operating philosophy that matter when you are talking about enabling democratic dialog. It’s again quite different then this article that eschews any transparency. Of course you or the outers can say “we care about things besides transparency more” but that’s still a value judgement that puts transparency lower on the list of priorities. I also think that authors that allow you to publish their work without attribution do share responsibility for their work being published without attribution.