Research Assistant

Research Assistant

Forecasting Research Institute (FRI)
Opportunity type
Part-time role
Cause areas
Global Priorities Research
Institutional Decision-making
Routes to impact
💡 Direct/Increased Engagement with EA
📈 Skill-Building & Building Career Capital
🤲 Direct High Impact on an Important Cause
Relevant aptitudes
Forecasting
Academia
Conceptual & Empirical Research
Organization Building, Boosting & Running
Duration
🗓️ Year-Round
Location
Remote
Description
Research assistants support project leads in a variety of ways. Example tasks include:
  • Literature reviews
  • Distilling complex topics into forecastable questions
  • Responding to forecasters’ questions or clarification requests
  • Assisting project leads in designing and conducting experiments
  • Analyzing data and aggregating forecasts from in-progress and previous forecasting tournaments and experiments
  • Helping to run forecasting tournaments
  • Collecting historical data underlying forecasting questions to embed in forecasting tournaments
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