ClaimsGiveWell

“All other entries that meet our criteria will receive a participation prize of $500, capped at a total of 50 participation prizes for the first 50 submissions.”

GiveWell, unsigned organisational page 6 April 2022 GiveWell's Change Our Mind Contest (GiveWell) archived copy

Promise Science and research methods

GiveWell will give a $500 participation prize to other qualifying entries, capped at 50 prizes for the first 50 submissions.

Unresolvable The public record could not settle it.

Promise: Commitments to the person's or organisation's own future action, with something to deliver: was it delivered?

What would count as true or false

True: GiveWell awarded $500 participation prizes to qualifying non-winning entries, up to the first 50 such submissions (if fewer than 50 qualified, all qualifying ones received $500). Mostly true: participation prizes were awarded essentially as stated, with a minor deviation (e.g., a slightly different count or amount explained by eligibility). Mostly false: participation prizes were paid only to a small fraction of qualifying entries or at a materially different amount. False: GiveWell reports no participation prizes were paid, or that the scheme was cancelled. Award must be shown by GiveWell's results announcement giving the number of participation prizes, or third-party/entrant confirmation.

Set before the research began.

Evidence (2)

  1. E1 1 The Clear Fund dba GiveWell · 31 May 2025 Own record

    “and fifty (50) participation Winning Entries will be selected (as described in Section 5, above) and will each receive a cash prize of five hundred U.S. dollars ($500).”

  2. E2 Four prize-winning posts from 2022 - Happier Lives Institute Happier Lives Institute · 23 December 2022

    “GiveWell awarded us $20,000 for inspiring the Change Our Mind Contest.”

Reasoning

E1 is GiveWell's own contest terms and only restates that fifty $500 participation prizes would be awarded; it does not show that any were paid. E2 is an independent report that GiveWell paid a $20,000 award for inspiring the Change Our Mind Contest, which is not a participation prize and gives no count of $500 awards. The criteria require GiveWell's results announcement giving the number of participation prizes, or entrant confirmation, and the evidence includes neither, so the claim cannot be resolved.

Cite this claim

GiveWell, “GiveWell will give a $500 participation prize to other qualifying entries, capped at 50 prizes for the first 50 submissions.” (said 6 April 2022). Verdict: unresolvable. Reliability API, claim c_76829089d6d8, method 0.1.0+7831dd9d, dataset release v1.1.2. https://epistacklabs.com/claims/c_76829089d6d8

This claim is in dataset release v1.1.2, with the same verdict.

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More promise claims by GiveWell

  1. Delivered on time Promise 6 April 2022
    “The first-place winning entry will receive $20,000, the runner-up will receive $10,000, and the honorable mention will receive $5,000.”

    GiveWell will award $20,000 to the first-place entry, $10,000 to the runner-up and $5,000 to the honorable mention in its contest.

  2. Delivered on time Promise 6 April 2022
    “Winners will be announced by December 15, 2022.”

    GiveWell will announce contest winners by December 15, 2022.

  3. Mostly false Promise 28 May 2020
    “We hope to conduct in-depth reviews of one to two other charities (most likely Precision Agriculture for Development and/or Sanku, though possibly others) as well, but may have limited capacity to do…”

    GiveWell hopes to conduct in-depth reviews of one to two other charities in 2020, most likely Precision Agriculture for Development and/or Sanku, but may have limited capacity due to COVID-19 work.

  4. Mostly true Promise 28 May 2020
    “We will make these grants if we believe they are more cost-effective than the opportunities to which we would otherwise direct funds.”

    GiveWell will make additional COVID-19 response grants if it believes they are more cost-effective than the opportunities to which it would otherwise direct funds.

  5. Mostly true Promise 28 May 2020
    “This year, we expect to complete our review of the RCT results and to make a decision about whether to direct additional funding to support New Incentives’ work.”

    In 2020 GiveWell will complete its review of the New Incentives RCT results and decide whether to direct additional funding to New Incentives.

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