Research. Visualisation. Inference.
Visualisation for Rethink Priorities’ Moral Weight Project - the cognitive and emotional capacities of various species were assessed and compared, with a view towards establishing their relative levels of sentience and welfare potential.
About
I am a senior behavioural scientist and researcher currently based in London. I use cutting-edge methods to better understand how people think, feel, and act, in relation to pressing societal issues.
Specialties and Interests
Data analysis
Data visualisation
Uncertainty and cost effectiveness
Power analysis
Shiny app development
Representative polling & inference
Behaviour change
R programming
Survey design and analysis
Bayesian inference/estimation
My work
Pulse: US attitudes and awareness regarding effective giving and philanthropic cause areas.
The Pulse project with Rethink Priorities project used large scale public polling of US adults to assess awareness and perceptions of effective giving opportunities, impactful cause areas, and the ideas and communities associated with such philanthropic efforts. You can read the report from this work, based on polls we conducted Q3 of 2024, here.
Public opinion of AI policy and risk.
A focus of my work at Rethink Priorities has been public opinion regarding societal scale risks posed by AI, and policies aimed at mitigating these risks. You can read the reports from this work based on polls we conducted in April and in June.
Bioethics and attitudes towards human challenge trials.
In a human challenge trial, volunteers are purposely exposed to infection in order to help speed the development of vaccines, treatments, and knowledge about diseases. This is an ethically sensitive area of research, but holds great potential. At Rethink Priorities, we partnered with 1DaySooner to investigate prospective volunteer attitudes, as well as public and expert opinion, about the ethics of human challenge trials.
Understanding probability distributions.
I developed the web app Distributr to help people visualise and understand a host of useful probability distributions. The app can be used to assess possible priors for a Bayesian analysis, or for incorporating uncertainty into cost effectiveness analyses. You can run the app here or see a walkthrough of its use in a cost effectiveness analysis here.
Other projects
classic-cocktails.com
A digitised version of the classic 1930s cocktail manual The Savoy Cocktail Book, enabling users to search cocktails by name and filter for different types of cocktails based on their ingredients.
