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Every statistician has a side. Which one are you on? 🤓
📊 Frequentist: estimates impact, useful for big decisions
🎯 Bayesian: updates as new data comes in, useful for learning as you go
Comment your pick 👇
#ExperimentWithEvidential
⚒️ On Evidential, we support both types of experiments. We also have Bayesians and frequentists ready to argue either side with you, if you need it!
📩 support@evidential.dev for your debate-ready neighbourhood statistician
🔗 idinsight.org/evidential/
💰Citizens care about how public money is spent. But taking part in budget forums isn’t always easy.
🗳️ What’s your biggest frustration with budget forums?
25%Notice comes too late
25%Venues are far to reach
25%Held during work hours
25%My views get lost
4 votes • 4 days#CareerMonday | Ready to use data, evidence & tech to improve lives at scale? We're hiring!
🔹 Director, Southeast Asia
🔹 Information Security & Systems Lead
🔹 Senior Accounting Specialist, India
🔹 Field Manager, Jakarta & Philippines
👉 Apply: idinsight.org/about/careers/
1/ Governments set aside billions each year for families in need. Yet a significant share goes unspent. IDinsight is building #BenefitsAI to address this directly, working with and through government systems.
Four levers stand out: 🧵
5/ 📈 Continuous learning
Monitoring, evaluation, and testing help the system improve over time. Each round of service delivery works better than the last.
6/ 🤝 Our first pilot is with Transform Rural India Foundation, supporting Didis, local women who help families access their entitlements. We’re looking for more partners in India to run quick pilots with us.
Learn more: idinsight.org/project/benefi…
You’ve set up #Evidential. Now which experiment comes first, and how do you act on the results? 🤔
IDinsight is piloting the Experimentation Advisory Service, where an idinsight senior economist joins your team on fractional basis(3 days a month).
#ExperimentWithEvidential
They’ll help you plan, run, and learn from your experiments, so you can make program decisions based on evidence.
Pilot spots open now 📩 support@evidential.dev 🔗 idinsight.org/evidential/
#ExperimentWithEvidential
💬 “Democracies need feedback loops.”
The rules for AI reflect the values of the people who write them. IDinsight’s Tom Wein makes the case for asking citizens what they value before those rules are locked in.
🔗 Learn more: idinsight.org/article/good-e…
#CareerMondays | Want your work to shape decisions that improve millions of lives? We’re hiring for 5 roles ⬇️
🌏 Director, Southeast Asia
🔐 Security & Systems Lead
⚙️ Operations Director
💰 Senior Accounting Specialist
📊 Consultant Economist
Full details in the thread 🧵⤵️
🔗 Apply now: idinsight.org/about/careers/
👇 Know someone who’d be a great fit? Tag them below!
🤔 Could, would, or should?
🟢 Most funding today goes to what AI could do.
🟡 Rather than what it would do at scale, or
🔴 What it should do.
So where should the funding flow in this next wave of philanthropy? The IDinsight team and @tony__sena answers it in their latest blog.
Link in threads 🧵⤵️
