Complications in evaluating neglectedness
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Abstract
Neglectedness (or crowdedness) is a heuristic that effective altruists use to assess how much impact they could have in a specific cause area. It is usually combined with scale (a.k.a. importance) and tractability (a.k.a. solvability), which together are meant to approximate expected value. (In fact, under certain idealized definitions of the three factors, multiplying them is equivalent to expected value. However, this removes the heuristic nature of these factors and probably does not describe how people typically apply them.) For introductions and thoughts on the framework as well as neglectedness in particular see:
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@online{oesterheld-complications-in-2017,
title = {Complications in evaluating neglectedness},
author = {Caspar Oesterheld},
url = {https://casparoesterheld.com/2017/06/25/complications-in-evaluating-neglectedness/},
year = {2017},
date = {2017-06-01},
howpublished = {The Universe from an Intentional Stance Blog},
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pubstate = {published},
tppubtype = {online}
}