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Apr 13, 20188 min read

Why You Should Care About Indirect Effects

“Without reflection, we go blindly on our way, creating more unintended consequences, and failing to achieve anything useful.” - Margaret...

Apr 11, 20185 min read

Why You Should Care About Scalability

“The difference between a charity that saves two million lives and a million lives is the same as the difference between one that never...

Apr 9, 20184 min read

The importance of being flexible

How often should you re-evaluate whether your charity is worth continuing? Although it is crucial to do your best to disconfirm your...

Apr 26, 20177 min read

Poverty Research Organization

This is one of our charity profiles, where we present our shallow, preliminary research on a potential, promising charity idea. We...

Apr 16, 20175 min read

Counterfactual impact: what would happen if you didn’t act?

“In order to be irreplaceable, you must always be different.” - Coco Chanel WHAT IS COUNTERFACTUAL IMPACT? Counterfactual impact is what...

Apr 7, 201711 min read

The Importance of Evidence

“Insofar as a scientific statement speaks about reality, it must be falsifiable; and in so far as it is not falsifiable, it does not...

Apr 3, 20177 min read

Cost-effectiveness

“Smart can also mean wise, kind, inspiring - and cost-effective. And that has a charm all its own.” - Nancy Gibbs When researching what...

Apr 2, 201715 min read

Which metrics to use when picking an intervention

What gets measured gets improved. - Robin Sharma When selecting which projects to implement, you should also try to maximize your...

Feb 5, 20172 min read

Charity Entrepreneurship Update 2017

Brief history: Charity Entrepreneurship was a project started by the Charity Science team with the intention of founding a highly...

Dec 17, 20167 min read

What is the expected value of creating a GiveWell top charity?

Earlier this year, GiveWell Experimental predicted that we, the team behind Charity Science Health (CSH), have a 15% chance of becoming a...