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Lessons learned from India

Everything takes longer One of the biggest things we noticed while in India was that it takes large amounts of time even to accomplish...

What's so great about increasing IQ?

--- This blog post has been edited and updated based on new information sent to us about the relationship between IQ and income. We feel...

Six Examples of Measuring Incomplete Metrics ...and How to Fix Them

If you want to create an effective charity, how do you know if it is effective? A very common answer is, by doing detailed measurement...

Thoughts on living in the developing world

When we decided to do this project many of our advisors suggested we spend time in the developing world to get a stronger sense of some...

Progress update and prioritization change

We have passed our March 1st deadline for our first section and have not quite completed all we aimed to do. We have two large changes...

Summaries on areas we are no longer researching

After completing our first two months of research across thirty intervention areas, we have now selected numerous specific charity ideas...

A High-level Review of our Thoughts on Interventions

Two months ago, we set out to identify possibilities for future GiveWell top charities, with the intention to start one ourselves. We...

Some mixed views on the treatment of animals in India

We knew when coming to India that a huge percentage of the population was vegetarian and many different cultures in India had respect for...

Progress update

Charity Entrepreneurship has been running for about one month so far with intentions to complete our shallow intervention research in two...

Reflections on our first slum tour

Our team is now in India, and one of the first things we did was arrange a tour of a large slum in New Delhi. We did this through PETE, a...