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# 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).