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7edoarad2d Statisticians Without Borders [https://swb.wildapricot.org/about_us] is a volunteer Outreach Group of the American Statistical Association that provides pro bono services in statistics and data science. Their focus is mostly on developing countries. They have about 800 Volunteers. Their Executive Committee consists of volunteers democratically elected from within the volunteer community every two years.

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Thursday, November 14th 2019
Thu, Nov 14th 2019

Frontpage Posts

58Managed Honey Bee Welfare: Problems and Potential Interventions

Jason Schukraft

32Next Steps in Invertebrate Welfare, Part 3: Understanding Attitudes and Possibilities

Daniela R. Waldhorn

34Next Steps in Invertebrate Welfare, Part 2: Possible Interventions

Daniela R. Waldhorn

1[Question]UK General Election: Where would you look for impact analysis of policy platforms?

Nathan Young

Community Posts

32EA Organization Updates: October 2019

aarongertler

15[Question]What metrics may be useful to measure the health of the EA community?

nonzerosum

Wednesday, November 13th 2019
Wed, Nov 13th 2019

Frontpage Posts

39Assumptions about the far future and cause priority

Jc_Mourrat

42Steelmanning the Case Against Unquantifiable Interventions

Davidmanheim

31On AI Weapons

kbog

30How to come to better conclusions by playing steelman solitaire

katherinesavoie

19Should animal advocates donate now or later? A few considerations and a request for more.

MichaelStJules

2[Question]Choosing effective university for donations

ea_worker

Community Posts

71Which Community Building Projects Get Funded?

AnonymousEAForumAccount

8[Link]ACE's Room for More Funding

erikaalonso

Shortform [Beta]

3Stefan_Schubert4d "Veil-of-ignorance reasoning favors the greater good" [https://www.pnas.org/content/early/2019/11/11/1910125116.abstract?etoc&fbclid=IwAR3Ggw8F24fQtMHftJsSerUvbK0eEbKML_maNkbYdNqpFy9JhC9otrZBk7g] , by Karen Huang, Joshua Greene, and Max Bazerman (all at Harvard).

Tuesday, November 12th 2019
Tue, Nov 12th 2019

Frontpage Posts

27[Link]A conversation with Rohin Shah

AI Impacts

11New and improved Candidate Scoring System

kbog

Community Posts

71EA Leaders Forum: Survey on EA priorities (data and analysis)

aarongertler

13Ethnic Diversity Experience Survey

vaidehi_agarwalla

Personal Blogposts

19[Link]Wild animal welfare in Hans Christian Andersen (Julia Wise)

aarongertler

14[Link]80,000 Hours: Before committing to management consulting, consider [other options]

aarongertler

Shortform [Beta]

16edoarad5d AMF's cost of nets is decreasing over time due to economies of scale and competition between net manufacturers. https://www.againstmalaria.com/DollarsPerNet.aspx [https://www.againstmalaria.com/DollarsPerNet.aspx]