First, I am starting a small campaign to push towards calling ‘pre-analysis plans’ something else before the train gets too far from the station. Something like ‘commitment to analysis plans’ or ‘commitment to analysis and reporting plans.’ I have two reasons for this. PAP just isn’t a super acronym; it’s kind of already taken. IContinue reading “Brief Thought on Commitment-To-Analysis Plans”
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Back to Basics — Trusting Whether and How The Data are Collected and Coded
This is a tangential response to the lacour and #lacourgate hubbub (with hats off to the summaries and views given here and here). While he is not implicated in all of the comments, below, I am mostly certainly indebted to Mike Frick for planting the seed of some of the ideas presented below, particularly onContinue reading “Back to Basics — Trusting Whether and How The Data are Collected and Coded”
planning for qualitative data collection and analysis
this blog reflects conversations and on-going work with both mike frick (@mwfrick), shagun sabarwal (@shagunsabarwal), and urmy shukla (@urmy_shukla) — they should receive no blame if this blog is wacky and plenty of credit if it is not. a recent post by monkey cage contributors on the washington post, then summarized by BITSS, asked/suggested whetherContinue reading “planning for qualitative data collection and analysis”
small thoughts on transparency in research (descriptions of methods, analysis)
there is currently a good deal of attention on transparency of social science research – as there should be. much of this is focused on keeping the analysis honest, including pre-analysis plans (e.g.) and opening up data for re-analysis (internal replication, e.g. here and here). some of this will hopefully receive good discussion at anContinue reading “small thoughts on transparency in research (descriptions of methods, analysis)”
have evidence, will… um, erm? (4 of 6, going public)
this is a joint post with suvojit. it is also posted on people, spaces, deliberation. in our last post, we discussed how establishing “relevant reasons” for decision-making ex ante may enhance the legitimacy and fairness of deliberations on resource allocation. we also highlight that setting relevant decision-making criteria can inform evaluation design by highlighting whatContinue reading “have evidence, will… um, erm? (4 of 6, going public)”
back (and forward) from ‘the big push forward’ – thoughts on why evidence is political and what to do about it
i spent the beginning of the week in brighton at the ‘big push forward‘ conference, on the politics of evidence (#evpolitics) which mixed the need for venting and catharsis (about the “results agenda” and “results-based management” and “impact evaluation”) with some productive conversation, though no immediate concreteness on how the evidence from the conference would itself beContinue reading “back (and forward) from ‘the big push forward’ – thoughts on why evidence is political and what to do about it”
Heather E. Lanthorn 