Knowing what we are talking about: why evidence doesn't always travel
Cartwright, Nancy
(2013)
Knowing what we are talking about: why evidence doesn't always travel
Evidence and Policy: a Journal of Research, Debate and Practice, 9 (1).
pp. 97-112.
ISSN 1744-2648
When is a well-established study result that a given policy/programme/treatment produced a given outcome in a particular study setting ('there') evidence that that policy/programme/treatment will produce that outcome in a new setting ('here')? This paper insists that 'there' and 'here' be firmly distinguished and offers in answer that we must have evidence that two further facts obtain: (a) that the policy can play the same causal role widely (widely enough to cover both here and there) and (b) that a complete set of the support factors necessary for the policy to operate here are present in some individuals here.
| Item Type | Article |
|---|---|
| Copyright holders | © 2013 Policy Press |
| Keywords | effectiveness, efficacy, external validity, inference |
| Departments | LSE |
| DOI | 10.1332/174426413X662581 |
| Date Deposited | 01 Jul 2014 15:38 |
| URI | https://researchonline.lse.ac.uk/id/eprint/57381 |
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