Is GiveWell really doubting itself or its premise—that it’s worth spending extra money evaluating where to give money?
That would be a cost-of-information question, which is really quite tricky. For instance, one might ask “Which of these charities would we prefer based on the amount of data we already have?” and then go and gather more data and see if the earlier data was actually sufficiently predictive, or some such ….
That would be a cost-of-information question, which is really quite tricky. For instance, one might ask “Which of these charities would we prefer based on the amount of data we already have?” and then go and gather more data and see if the earlier data was actually sufficiently predictive, or some such ….