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“Growth was robust for every donor size.”

GiveWell 12 March 2013 GiveWell annual review for 2012: Details on GiveWell's money moved and web traffic (The GiveWell Blog) archived copy

Factual Their own work or organisation

GiveWell's money moved grew robustly in 2012 for every donor size category.

Unresolvable The public record could not settle it.

Factual: Statements about the present or the past, checked against the record: did they hold up?

What would count as true or false

True: GiveWell's 2012 money moved data shows substantial year-over-year growth in money moved in every donor-size category it reported. Mostly true: every category grew, but one grew only modestly. Mixed: most categories grew robustly but one was flat. Mostly false: several categories were flat or declined. False: most categories did not grow.

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Evidence (3)

  1. E1 GiveWell's progress in 2012 - The GiveWell Blog GiveWell Blog · 8 February 2013 Own record

    “Growth in money moved was strong, but appears to be slowing relative to the previous 100% per year pace.”
  2. E2 Microsoft Word - Metrics report 2013 v5.doc GiveWell Own record

    “When we published our 2012 metrics report, we reported that money moved in 2012, was about $286,000 less than we now estimate it was in that year.”
  3. E3 Definitions GiveWell · February 2012 Own record

    “In 2011, GiveWell moved $5,285,992 to our recommended charities.”

Reasoning

E1 describes 2012 growth in total money moved as strong but slowing, and gives only aggregate figures with no donor-size breakdown. E2's donor-size table compares 2013 with 2012, and E3 covers 2010 to 2011, so no item shows 2011-to-2012 growth by donor-size category. All three sources come from GiveWell itself. The evidence does not settle whether every donor-size category grew robustly.

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GiveWell, “GiveWell's money moved grew robustly in 2012 for every donor size category.” (said 12 March 2013). Verdict: unresolvable. Reliability API, claim c_a60e8ce150b4, method 0.1.0+7831dd9d, dataset release v1.1.2. https://epistacklabs.com/claims/c_a60e8ce150b4

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