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The 100-level Value of Science explainer series walks through the three steps of assessing the socioeconomic impacts of improved scientific information, which ultimately allows you to describe how this information influences outcomes for people and the environment. The recommended approach to completing these steps is to fill out the VALUABLES Impact Assessment Framework. To complete the last row in the framework, you need to identify the outcomes for people and the environment in the following two scenarios: a world in which the improved information is available to the decisionmaker, and one in which the information is not available. Moreover, Value of Science 109 describes how differences in outcomes between the two worlds—the “delta” between the reference and counterfactual cases—can be expressed quantitatively.