I’d be interested, but you say that the payment “depending on the post, it might also end up (much) lower”. Also, I haven’t done any research into this before, and would have a lot of reading to do, and so someone else would probably do it first.
Have you already had volunteers, and could you elaborate on the payment?
Sorry for replying so late! I was quite busy this week.
I initially wanted to commission someone and expected that I’d have to pay 4 digits. Someone suggested I put down a bounty. I’m not familiar with putting bounties on things and I wanted to avoid getting myself in a situation where I feel like I have to pay the full amount for
work that’s poor
work that’s decent but much less detailed than I had envisioned
multiple reports each
I think I’m happy to pay the full amount for a report that is
transparent in its reasoning, so I can trust it,
tells me how much to trust study results, e.g., describes potential flaws and caveats for the studies they looked at,
roughly on the level of detail that’s indicated by what I wrote under “the type of content I would like to see included”. Ideally, the person writing wouldn’t treat my list as a shopping list, but use their common sense to include the things I’d be interested in
the only report of this type that claims the bounty
The first two are the most important ones. (And the last one is weird) If It’s much less detailed, but fulfills the other criteria, I’d still be happy to pay triple digit.
As you’re later comment says, I think this is a pretty complex topic, and I can imagine that £2000 wouldn’t actually cover the work needed to do such a report well.
I think before someone seriously puts time into this, they should probably just contact me. Both to spare awkward double work + submissions. And to set expectations on the payment. I’ll edit my post to be clearer on this.
actually never mind. I don’t have a university or anything that gives access to journals, sci-hub doesn’t have a convenient search tool, and arxiv doesn’t have enough articles about this topic
woah, birth control is way more complicated than I thought. I started looking and it turns out I can’t just read a bunch of studies about each method and say what the side effect risks are. There are quite a lot of birth control methods and chemicals, each with tons of complicated chemical interactions, tons of complicated hormonal interactions, side effects, etc. Each article talks about lots of fancy biological terms like “venous thrombosis” that I have to keep looking up. I also don’t really have the medical knowledge to really put things in scale: for example, one medication treatment is said to raise a hormone level to a peak of something ng/mL, and I don’t know how much of a change that is.
Thanks for the help finding sources, everyone, but this bounty won’t be claimed until a doctor looks at it.
I’d be interested, but you say that the payment “depending on the post, it might also end up (much) lower”. Also, I haven’t done any research into this before, and would have a lot of reading to do, and so someone else would probably do it first.
Have you already had volunteers, and could you elaborate on the payment?
Sorry for replying so late! I was quite busy this week.
I initially wanted to commission someone and expected that I’d have to pay 4 digits. Someone suggested I put down a bounty. I’m not familiar with putting bounties on things and I wanted to avoid getting myself in a situation where I feel like I have to pay the full amount for
work that’s poor
work that’s decent but much less detailed than I had envisioned
multiple reports each
I think I’m happy to pay the full amount for a report that is
transparent in its reasoning, so I can trust it,
tells me how much to trust study results, e.g., describes potential flaws and caveats for the studies they looked at,
roughly on the level of detail that’s indicated by what I wrote under “the type of content I would like to see included”. Ideally, the person writing wouldn’t treat my list as a shopping list, but use their common sense to include the things I’d be interested in
the only report of this type that claims the bounty
The first two are the most important ones. (And the last one is weird) If It’s much less detailed, but fulfills the other criteria, I’d still be happy to pay triple digit.
As you’re later comment says, I think this is a pretty complex topic, and I can imagine that £2000 wouldn’t actually cover the work needed to do such a report well.
I think before someone seriously puts time into this, they should probably just contact me. Both to spare awkward double work + submissions. And to set expectations on the payment. I’ll edit my post to be clearer on this.
actually never mind. I don’t have a university or anything that gives access to journals, sci-hub doesn’t have a convenient search tool, and arxiv doesn’t have enough articles about this topic
You can search on scholar.google.com (if normal google isn’t good enough) and get them from scihub/libgen.
oh thanks.
Other useful tools:
Connected Papers
Semantic Scholar
woah, birth control is way more complicated than I thought. I started looking and it turns out I can’t just read a bunch of studies about each method and say what the side effect risks are. There are quite a lot of birth control methods and chemicals, each with tons of complicated chemical interactions, tons of complicated hormonal interactions, side effects, etc. Each article talks about lots of fancy biological terms like “venous thrombosis” that I have to keep looking up. I also don’t really have the medical knowledge to really put things in scale: for example, one medication treatment is said to raise a hormone level to a peak of something ng/mL, and I don’t know how much of a change that is.
Thanks for the help finding sources, everyone, but this bounty won’t be claimed until a doctor looks at it.