Yah. Making the homeless jump through hoops is negative to the dignity of everyone involved-- both the homeless person and the people interacting with them to

Yah. Making the homeless jump through hoops is negative to the dignity of everyone involved-- both the homeless person and the people interacting with them to get wifi. On the other hand, the experiment design that was mentioned: we need to do a lot more like this. Randomize some people jumping the waitlist and then compare them to people in the same position in the waitlist that you didn't let jump the line. That way we can objectively measure what programs produce the best outcomes and deserve the most resources. Big Brothers Big Sisters was convincingly able to show the efficacy of their programs with a variant of this experiment design, which IMO puts them a whole lot ahead of most other charities.