Manfred comments on [Link] Social interventions gone wrong - Less Wrong

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Comment author: Manfred 20 August 2012 11:19:16AM 2 points [-]

6/8 - I thought 21st Century schools would improve behavior, and I thought Even Start would improve child literacy but not adult literacy. This is really more of a 5/7, though, since I already knew of DARE's ineffectiveness.

The Nurse-family partnership thing sounds like a big-government liberal dream program, so how could I not predict that it would greatly improve outcomes :P

Comment author: Luke_A_Somers 20 August 2012 02:17:24PM 2 points [-]

The Nurse-family partnership sounds to me more like personalized care, which is a big deal in terms of effectiveness. It doesn't say it was run by the government, and it read to me like it was done by individual hospitals.

Comment author: Manfred 20 August 2012 05:50:48PM 4 points [-]

Oh, so it is. It's a major-foundation-funded charity, my bad.