{"id":11221,"date":"2014-08-28T23:25:09","date_gmt":"2014-08-28T23:25:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/80000hours.org\/?page_id=11221"},"modified":"2026-03-30T16:29:57","modified_gmt":"2026-03-30T16:29:57","slug":"credibility","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/80000hours.org\/about\/credibility\/","title":{"rendered":"Our impact and&nbsp;credibility"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2>Research process and principles<\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li>We explain the <a href=\"\/about\/credibility\/research-principles\/\">process and principles we use to guide our work here.<\/a><\/li>\n<li>For each individual article on our site, we justify our claims in footnotes, appendices, or other reports. If you see a claim that isn&#8217;t backed up by a link or citation, you can assume there&#8217;s no further justification. <\/li>\n<li>We ask experts in the relevant area to check our articles for mistakes before we publish them.<\/li>\n<li>We try to make it easy to critique our work by providing a summary of our key findings, explaining our research process, and flagging key judgement calls and uncertainties.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h2>Transparency<\/h2>\n<p>We publish:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"\/about\/credibility\/reviews\/\">Organisational reviews<\/a> regularly<\/li>\n<li>Our <a href=\"\/about\/evaluations\/financial-accounts\/\">annual accounts<\/a><\/li>\n<li>A summary of the <a href=\"\/about\/evaluations\/mistakes\">key mistakes<\/a> we&#8217;ve made as an organisation<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h2>Impact<\/h2>\n<p>Over 10 million people have read our website and our podcast has almost two million listening hours. Thousands of people have told us they&#8217;ve shifted their career plans based on our advice.<\/p>\n<p>Read about:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Our  <a href=\"https:\/\/80000hours.org\/about\/credibility\/evaluations\/\">year-on-year impact via our self-evaluations<\/a><\/li>\n<li> <a href=\"\/about\/credibility\/what-others-say-about-80000-hours\/#\">80,000 Hours in the media and endorsements<\/a><\/li>\n<li>A few of our <a href=\"https:\/\/80000hours.org\/stories\/\"> readers who we&#8217;re especially excited about<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h2>Acknowledgements<\/h2>\n<p>We&#8217;re extremely grateful to all those who have supported us over the years.<\/p>\n<p>80,000 Hours wouldn&#8217;t be possible if it weren&#8217;t for the help of many, many people. We&#8217;re deeply grateful for your support and for this opportunity to have a big impact.<\/p>\n<p>Some of the people and groups we&#8217;d especially like to thank are:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/80000hours.org\/about\/donors\/\">Our donors<\/a><\/p>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<p>Everyone who has worked at 80,000 Hours in the past, whether as staff, contractors, volunteers, or interns<\/p>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<p>The team at <a href=\"https:\/\/ev.org\/ops\/about\/\">Effective Ventures Operations<\/a> (and previously the Centre for Effective Altruism), who provided us with operations support during our time as an EV project<\/p>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<p>Everyone who advises us on our strategy and content<\/p>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<p>All the field-experts who speak to the people we advise about their careers<\/p>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<p>Our <a href=\"https:\/\/80000hours.org\/about\/meet-the-team\/#our-board-of-directors\">board members and external advisors<\/a><\/p>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"parent":141,"menu_order":1,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1510,1509],"class_list":["post-11221","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry","category-about-80-000-hours","category-other-topics"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.3 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Our impact and credibility | 80,000 Hours<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/80000hours.org\/about\/credibility\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Our impact and credibility | 80,000 Hours\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Research process and principles We explain the process and principles we use to guide our work here.\nFor each individual article on our site, we justify our claims in footnotes, appendices, or other reports. 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