GiveWell likely will not be able to share a full response to all contest entries, due to limited research capacity.

True: after the contest, GiveWell did not publish a full response to every entry. Responses given only to the winners or to selected entries count, provided the published record shows that some entries got no full response. Mostly true: most entries got no full response, but GiveWell published brief notes or summaries for many of them. Mostly false: GiveWell published full responses to nearly all entries. False: a full response was published for every entry.

Set before the research began.

1. E1 The winners of the Change Our Mind Contest—and some reflections - The GiveWell Blog GiveWell Blog · 15 December 2022 Own record

   “Winners are listed below, followed by our reflections on this contest and responses to the winners.”

2. E2 The winners of the Change Our Mind Contest—and some reflections - The GiveWell Blog GiveWell Blog · 15 December 2022 Own record

   “In order to manage all the suggestions we received, one of our researchers reviewed all 49 entries and created a dashboard for tracking the 100 discrete suggestions we identified.”

3. E3 Footnotes for “Research Strategy: Cross-Cutting” GiveWell · 6 April 2022 Own record

   “See here, here, and here for responses that we made to criticisms of GiveWell that we received as part of our 2022 Change Our Mind Contest, in which we invited critiques of our cost-effectiveness analyses and awarded cash prizes to the best entries.”

4. E4 Evaluations of GiveWell GiveWell · December 2025 Own record

   “More recently, we commissioned a report from an iron and anemia expert to inform our view on concerns raised by an entry to our Change Our Mind Contest.”

GiveWell's December 2022 results post says it gives responses to the winners (E1) and notes that it reviewed all 49 entries internally, while the 39 participation-prize entries are not individually listed (E2). This published record indicates that most entries received no full public response. Other material points to selective follow-up, such as three linked responses and one commissioned expert report on a single entry (E3, E4). All sources are GiveWell's own, but the claim concerns what GiveWell itself published, so its published record is the relevant evidence.