Tag Archives: causal mechanisms

causes, explanations, & getting stuff done

@edwardcarr, i also have a confession, which is that i have a small crush on you right now for the post in which you make a confession about causality and try to disentangle causes, mechanisms, and information that can be used to understand, revamp, and scale programs. i’d like to try to tweak the argument, especially in lightContinueContinue reading “causes, explanations, & getting stuff done”

Asking people what they think (I)

This is only a small splinter off my much larger soapbox of “why don’t we ask a multitude of stakeholders at all levels what they think and why they think x program did/not work?” but… check it out. Instead of channeling the world’s poorest citizens through malfunctioning microphones, I am proposing a radical, yet extremelyContinueContinue reading “Asking people what they think (I)”