>> So what, what we try to do is understand
everything about the organizations activities and impact.
All the ways that the program could, could attempt to succeed, but end up failing.
And therefore, the way in which,
our best guess about how much money is actually able to accomplish.
So for example in the case of Against Malaria Foundation
which is one of our recommended charities and it funds malaria nets in Africa.
We, we want to look at how much it costs it to buy a single net, but
also how much it costs to ship the nets abroad, how often nets are stolen.
We believe and hope it's quite rare, but it happens.
How frequently nets are used properly and then how many nets need to be distributed
for those, for, for lives to actually be saved.
And we are consistently reassessing what we've learned before to see
whether any changes in either the contexts within which the organizations work.
Or research that's being done about Malaria could change the effectiveness or
the cost effectiveness of the program.
So, for example, if a,
if a new Malaria net is developed that can last twice as long as a net that came
out before that would improve the cost effectiveness of the program.
And we take that into account in the estimates that we make,
all of which we publish on our website.
So anyone can go through and evaluate the judgement calls and
the assumptions that we have to make to reach these types of estimates.
There's obviously no formulated way to compare between what all charities do.
And we recognize this and are not trying to put everything into
one number that tells you, this charity is the best.
We know that's not possible.
What we do try to do is when we see organizations that are implementing
very different things, try to put their impacts in terms that are most comparable.
So in the case of the Malaria charity,
the impact we see as most salient is the fact that it saves lives.
Another top charity of ours gives out pills to treat parasitic infections.
And so it improves lives.
It does not save them, but it improves the quality of life.
And so in that case what we are left with is, the donor's left with,
is ultimately a values judgement, a philosophical judgement.
About the, the how, how many lives and to what extent one
would improve relative to how many lives and, and one would want to save.
And so we try to, to reach that, we,
we try to share that information with our donors.
So that donors with different values are able to make that, that decision for
themselves.