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Rob Wiblin

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80,000 Hours Podcast
#113 โ€“ Varsha Venugopal on using gossip to help vaccinate every child in India

It also is very intuitive that would have this effect of getting more parents to vaccinate their kids.

80,000 Hours Podcast
#113 โ€“ Varsha Venugopal on using gossip to help vaccinate every child in India

Yeah, it's not a wacky intervention that you would have guessed wouldn't work.

80,000 Hours Podcast
#113 โ€“ Varsha Venugopal on using gossip to help vaccinate every child in India

And so maybe it's a waste of your attention or a waste of money to be going and doing all that much monitoring and evaluation.

80,000 Hours Podcast
#113 โ€“ Varsha Venugopal on using gossip to help vaccinate every child in India

Maybe you should kick that can down the road and wait for another couple of years before going into that.

80,000 Hours Podcast
#113 โ€“ Varsha Venugopal on using gossip to help vaccinate every child in India

Interesting.

80,000 Hours Podcast
#113 โ€“ Varsha Venugopal on using gossip to help vaccinate every child in India

Okay, so the idea is you'll do the monitoring evaluation later on once you're like trying to grow more.

80,000 Hours Podcast
#113 โ€“ Varsha Venugopal on using gossip to help vaccinate every child in India

Yeah, I guess there's a slightly cheap way for you to potentially measure impact, which is a little bit harder at the testing phase when you're only reaching a small number of people.

80,000 Hours Podcast
#113 โ€“ Varsha Venugopal on using gossip to help vaccinate every child in India

Because if you're actually growing a lot and you say there's like a thousand villages on your list that you eventually want to reach, but you can't reach them all right away, then you can do a before and after comparison.

80,000 Hours Podcast
#113 โ€“ Varsha Venugopal on using gossip to help vaccinate every child in India

where you say, well, we got to this one first, and then we looked at what happened the month after and the month before.

80,000 Hours Podcast
#113 โ€“ Varsha Venugopal on using gossip to help vaccinate every child in India

And then with the next one, we reached them a month later, after and before.

80,000 Hours Podcast
#113 โ€“ Varsha Venugopal on using gossip to help vaccinate every child in India

Normally, this just before and after comparison isn't completely persuasive, isn't super persuasive, because there could have been some broader trend, some other thing that happened around that same time that might have changed vaccination rates that wasn't you.

80,000 Hours Podcast
#113 โ€“ Varsha Venugopal on using gossip to help vaccinate every child in India

But if you have enough villages, if you have a large enough sample, then it's very likely that any such broader changes are cancelling out.

80,000 Hours Podcast
#113 โ€“ Varsha Venugopal on using gossip to help vaccinate every child in India

And you also get this diversification across different time periods where you release the program.

80,000 Hours Podcast
#113 โ€“ Varsha Venugopal on using gossip to help vaccinate every child in India

So

80,000 Hours Podcast
#113 โ€“ Varsha Venugopal on using gossip to help vaccinate every child in India

Simply kind of doing this before and after comparison.

80,000 Hours Podcast
#113 โ€“ Varsha Venugopal on using gossip to help vaccinate every child in India

Yeah, if you're large enough, could give you a very good measure of your impact.

80,000 Hours Podcast
#113 โ€“ Varsha Venugopal on using gossip to help vaccinate every child in India

Fantastic.

80,000 Hours Podcast
#113 โ€“ Varsha Venugopal on using gossip to help vaccinate every child in India

Okay.

80,000 Hours Podcast
#113 โ€“ Varsha Venugopal on using gossip to help vaccinate every child in India

Yeah.

80,000 Hours Podcast
#113 โ€“ Varsha Venugopal on using gossip to help vaccinate every child in India

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