From Science to Policy: What's so good about evidence? Professor Nancy Cartwright

Evidence-based policy has been all the rage for over a decade. Clearly it is better to inform decisions by evidence than merely by ideology, wishful thinking or casual observation. But the methods standardly recommended – that social policy imitate evidence-based medicine, relying on gold-standard randomized-controlled-trials – are a bad way of using evidence to predict if policies will work in practice. This talk shows how to do better.

Видео From Science to Policy: What's so good about evidence? Professor Nancy Cartwright канала Linus Pauling Memorial Lecture Series