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Rob Wiblin

๐Ÿ‘ค Speaker
552 total appearances

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Podcast Appearances

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

What's another potential roadblock to achieving your full potential?

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

Is it likely that COVID is going to present kind of longer term challenges or is it more, it's hopefully a temporary thing for just a few years?

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

And actually, what was the main problem that COVID presented?

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

I guess you had to switch to remote work, but was it that people were unwilling to leave their house to go and get vaccinated?

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

So it wasn't clear what you were asking them to do?

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

So I guess to reach 10 to 100 times as many parents, you might need something like 10 to 100 times as much funding.

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

Do you think, you know, if we can hire the right people, if we can demonstrate that we're roughly having the effect that we were expecting to, that amount of funding is in theory available from foundations or different places that you can apply?

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

Or could that potentially just, could you eventually reach something where you're like, well, we've gotten as much money as we can from all of the funders who are interested in funding this kind of thing and now we're stuck?