GiveWell's best guess is that it is undercounting money moved by $10-20 million.
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Reasoning
It is GiveWell's own internal best-guess estimate of undercounting.
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GiveWell, “GiveWell's best guess is that it is undercounting money moved by $10-20 million.” (said 2018). Verdict: own records only. Reliability API, claim c_c0c77fa612e1, method 0.1.0+7831dd9d, dataset release v1.1.2. https://epistacklabs.com/claims/c_c0c77fa612e1
This claim is in dataset release v1.1.2, with the same verdict.
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