EA - Misleading phrase in a GiveWell Youtube ad by Thomas Kwa

Link to original articleWelcome to The Nonlinear Library, where we use Text-to-Speech software to convert the best writing from the Rationalist and EA communities into audio. This is: Misleading phrase in a GiveWell Youtube ad, published by Thomas Kwa on January 5, 2023 on The Effective Altruism Forum.In a sponsored segment for GiveWell on a video by the channel Half as Interesting, the narrator Sam Denby says:[...] Personally, I'd give to the Helen Keller Foundation, which I found through GiveWell, because they help save thousands of lives through distributing Vitamin A supplements to children. Vitamin A supplements can help save the lives of children suffering from vitamin A deficiencies and only cost one dollar to deliver a supplement and save a child.This seems to reinforce the misconception that saving lives in the developing world is incredibly cheap. GiveWell's cost effectiveness estimates actually range from ~$1500 to ~$27,000 for Helen Keller's various regional programs, so this is off by 3 OOMs.I'm not sure if this quote was under GiveWell's editorial control, but to the extent it was I'm disappointed. Surely GiveWell should try to prevent this kind of thing from happening in the future, even if the sponsoree is speaking for themself, the misleading statement is brief, the misinformation looks favorable to GiveWell, or other charities' ads are also misleading.Thanks for listening. To help us out with The Nonlinear Library or to learn more, please visit nonlinear.org.