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

Promise Science and research methods

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.

Delivered on time The record shows it happened or was so.

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 $20,000 to a first-place entry, $10,000 to a runner-up and $5,000 to an honorable mention (if it chose to award more or split prizes, the announced amounts at least matched these for the specified places). Mostly true: prizes were awarded at these levels with a minor deviation in structure (e.g., ties splitting a place's amount). Mostly false: only some of the three prizes were awarded, or at materially lower amounts. False: GiveWell announced no such prizes or cancelled the awards. Evidence must be GiveWell's results announcement or winners' confirmation stating amounts.

Set before the research began.

Evidence (4)

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

    “Because we were impressed by the quality of entries, we’ve decided to award two first-place prizes and eight honorable mentions. (We stated in September that we would give a minimum of one first-place, one runner-up, and one honorable mention prize.)”

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

    “Honorable mentions – $5,000 each”

  3. E3 The winners of the Change Our Mind Contest—and some reflections - The GiveWell Blog GiveWell · 15 December 2022 Own record

    “Because they are similarly excellent, we are naming two winners rather than one winner and one runner-up.”

  4. E4 EA & LW Forums Weekly Summary (12th Dec - 18th Dec 22') — EA Forum EA Forum · 20 December 2022

    “They assigned two first place winners due to the quality of submissions, in addition to 8 honorable mentions, and $500 prizes for all others of the 49 entries meeting contest criteria.”

Reasoning

GiveWell's results announcement of 2022-12-15 lists two first-place prizes of $20,000 each and eight honorable mentions of $5,000 each (E1, E2). It says the second first-place winner was named instead of a runner-up, so the entry in the runner-up position received $20,000 rather than $10,000 (E3). The criteria count awarding more as meeting the promise if the amounts at least match each place, and these amounts meet or exceed the promised levels. An independent forum summary confirms the two first-place winners and eight honorable mentions (E4), and the announcement fell on the deadline date.

Cite this claim

GiveWell, “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.” (said 6 April 2022). Verdict: delivered on time. Reliability API, claim c_f52acdb05bcf, method 0.1.0+7831dd9d, dataset release v1.1.2. https://epistacklabs.com/claims/c_f52acdb05bcf

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
    “Winners will be announced by December 15, 2022.”

    GiveWell will announce contest winners by December 15, 2022.

  2. 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.

  3. 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.

  4. 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.

  5. Resolved true Promise 7 January 2010
    “we’ll be trying to examine ourselves as dispassionately and critically as possible, and sharing our self-review in something close to real time via this blog.”

    GiveWell will examine itself critically over the coming weeks and share its self-review in near real time on its blog.

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