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Priority Calculator

Severity, tractability and neglectedness: where does a resource help most?

With the same resource, where do we help most? Compare two problems using the criteria from Volume VIII, chapter 1.

Problem ANumber of victimsHow bad each victim's situation is (1 to 10)Victims the resource can helpHow much each helped victim improves (1 to 10)People already working on it

Problem BNumber of victimsHow bad each victim's situation is (1 to 10)Victims the resource can helpHow much each helped victim improves (1 to 10)People already working on it

A and B side by side

Problem A
Problem B

The starting values repeat the example from the book: A is more serious (900,000 victims), but the resource helps more victims in B. The neglectedness criterion says that the fewer people are already working on a problem, the more difference each additional person makes.

Based on Vol. VIII, ch. 1: How to Choose Which Causes and Problems to Prioritize and Which Strategies Are Best?