Is there some kind of metric tracking net positive impact on the world as a result of CFAR workshops?
There’s the longitudinal study. I do think that CFAR was, generally speaking, good for participants that attended its workshops, while suspecting that ‘more was possible’ and it performed somewhat poorly on its main goals.
[Like, if the goal of CFAR had been more like “increase life-satisfaction QALYs”, then I think having a broad impact would have been much better, and it would have moved more from “workshops that can cultivate large changes for small numbers of people” to “online classes that can cultivate small changes for large numbers of people”.]
There’s the longitudinal study. I do think that CFAR was, generally speaking, good for participants that attended its workshops, while suspecting that ‘more was possible’ and it performed somewhat poorly on its main goals.
[Like, if the goal of CFAR had been more like “increase life-satisfaction QALYs”, then I think having a broad impact would have been much better, and it would have moved more from “workshops that can cultivate large changes for small numbers of people” to “online classes that can cultivate small changes for large numbers of people”.]