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
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.