diff --git a/ESPR-Evaluation/Write-up.md b/ESPR-Evaluation/Write-up.md index ca0a105..1bb5c88 100644 --- a/ESPR-Evaluation/Write-up.md +++ b/ESPR-Evaluation/Write-up.md @@ -1,6 +1,7 @@ # ESPR-Evaluation Writeup -(Epistemic status: Cognitive dissonance. Note: The question I am answering here is not "Should I donate to CFAR?" but "Which plan could be set in motion to better estimate ESPR's impact?".) +(Epistemic status: Cognitive dissonance. Why does CFAR measure it's impact the way it does?) +Note: The question whose answer me here is not "Should I donate to CFAR?". ## Introduction I have spent the last 2-4 months thinking about how to evaluate the impact of the European Summer Camp on Rationality (ESPR) [1], a selective program affiliated with CFAR (Center for Applied Rationality) which takes brilliant highschoolers and teach thems a variety of rationality techniques. Here are the highlights of what I have found, as well as some remarks on what CFAR could do if it was interested in measuring impact with a randomized controlled trial (an RCT).