Comments on: The Giving Carnival: Edition 5 http://tacticalphilanthropy.com/2007/03/the-giving-carnival-edition-5-2 Sat, 11 Oct 2008 11:39:04 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.5.1 By: Holden http://tacticalphilanthropy.com/2007/03/the-giving-carnival-edition-5-2#comment-147 Holden Thu, 29 Mar 2007 04:14:56 +0000 http://tacticalphilanthropy.com/2007/03/28/the-giving-carnival-edition-5-2/#comment-147 I'll venture to say that GiveWell is putting itself out there more than any of the other posters, offering actual metrics to be picked apart and critiqued. Describing the pitfalls on both sides is one thing; the hardest way to respond to the question Sean posed is to try to navigate them and give a concrete answer. I know the GiveWell post is a long one, but I really think it's worth reading and commenting on for this reason: it contains an actual attempt at the balancing act between too much evaluation and too little. I would really like this space to provide dialogue and constructive criticism, not just collections of disconnected editorials, and I would really appreciate if people would read, think about, and comment on our approach to metrics. I’ll venture to say that GiveWell is putting itself out there more than any of the other posters, offering actual metrics to be picked apart and critiqued. Describing the pitfalls on both sides is one thing; the hardest way to respond to the question Sean posed is to try to navigate them and give a concrete answer.

I know the GiveWell post is a long one, but I really think it’s worth reading and commenting on for this reason: it contains an actual attempt at the balancing act between too much evaluation and too little. I would really like this space to provide dialogue and constructive criticism, not just collections of disconnected editorials, and I would really appreciate if people would read, think about, and comment on our approach to metrics.

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