I'm posting this in preparation for Draft Amnesty Week (Feb 24- March 2), but please also use this thread for posts you don't plan to write for Draft Amnesty. The last time I posted this question, there were some great responses.
If you have multiple ideas, I'd recommend putting them in different answers, so that people can respond to them separately.
It would be great to see:
- Both spur-of-the-moment vague ideas, and further along considered ideas. If you're in that latter camp, you could even share a google doc for feedback on an outline.
- Commenters signalling with Reactions and upvotes the content that they'd like to see written.
- Commenters responding with helpful resources or suggestions.
- Commenters proposing Dialogues with authors who suggest similar ideas, or which they have an interesting disagreement with (Draft Amnesty Week might be a great time for scrappy/ unedited dialogues).
Draft Amnesty Week
If the responses here encourage you to develop one of your ideas, Draft Amnesty Week (February 24- March 2) might be a great time to post it. Posts tagged "Draft Amnesty Week" don't have to be thoroughly thought through or even fully drafted. Bullet points and missing sections are allowed. You can have a lower bar for posting.
Some things you might want to do if you are making a weighted factor model
Weighted factor models are commonly used within EA (e.g. by Charity Entrepreneurship/AIM and 80,000 Hours). Even the formalised Scale, Solvability, Neglectedness framework can, itself, be considered a form of weighted factor model.
However, despite their wide use, weighted factor models often neglect to use important methodological techniques which could test and improve their robustness, which may threaten their validity and usefulness. RP's Surveys and Data Analysis team previously consulted for a project who were using a WFM, and helped them understand certain things that were confusing them about the behaviour of their model using these techniques, but we've never had time to write up a detailed post about these methods. Such a post would discuss such topics as:
This would be great to read, I walked away from at least one application process because I couldn't produce a decent WFM. I hope you write it!