Monday, April 29th, 2013
Edited By Jeremy Holland, published by Practical Action. 2013
(from the Practical Action website) "Local people can generate their own numbers – and the statistics that result are powerful for themselves and can influence policy. Since the early 1990s there has been a quiet tide of innovation in generating statistics using ...
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Monday, February 11th, 2013
(found via Duncan Green at Oxfam)
What she should then have said: "Well, let's look to see if there is any plausible causal mechanism underneath this correlation" "Can you remember where you were when you first changed your mind? Can you remember what the discussion was about at that time?"
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Friday, May 14th, 2010
James Wainberg , Thomas Kida, James F. Smith
March 12, 2010 Download pdf copy
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Prior research in psychology and communications suggests that decision makers are biased by anecdotal data, even in the presence of more informative statistical data. A bias for anecdotal data can ...
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Wednesday, September 9th, 2009
By Aldo Benini
"The purpose of this paper is to add simple productivity tools for text analysis, by publicizing existing ones and by adding one that I created. “Simple” is a relative term. As the diagram in the Summary ...
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