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Recent Posts
- Evaluation of marketing – grappling with the important but hard to measure outcomes
- The Friday Funny: A surrealistic mega-analysis of redisorganization theories
- Getting the facts straight on youth unemployment rates
- The Friday Funny: Negotiating the budget
- The Friday Funny: Evaluation and content expertise
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- Tarina MacDonald on 9 golden rules for commissioning a waste-of-money evaluation
- Tarina MacDonald on Valuing cultural expertise – in $$ terms
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Category Archives: Appropriate inference
Getting the facts straight on youth unemployment rates
Old mistake in today’s article on European responses to austerity measures – here, as reported by Karen Kissane in The Age in Melbourne: Meanwhile, in Greece, a country spiralling into poverty with more than half of its young people unemployed, … Continue reading
The Friday Funny – replicating successful strategies
In an environment where discussions of evidence-based policy and practice sometimes focus exclusively on identifying ‘what works’ and scaling it up, we thought it timely to share this story where the joke is on the Australians. The joke has been … Continue reading
The trials and tribulations of trials
Katherine Hay continues her guest blogging on evidence and evaluation. Ben Goldacre in The Guardian wrote that UK politicians “are ignorant about trials and they’re weird about evidence.” He contrasts this with international development where he talks about the “amazing … Continue reading
Posted in Appropriate inference, Appropriate measurement, Development
Tagged evidence
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The Rise and Risk of Evidence
Our guest blogger this week is Katherine Hay, a senior member of the Evaluation Unit of the International Centre for Development Research. Based in New Delhi, India, she is an expert on the role of evaluation in development in South Asia. … Continue reading
Posted in Appropriate inference, Causal inference, Causal inference strategies, Development
Tagged Development, evidence
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The Friday Funny – the timing of evaluation
This week’s Friday Funny reminds us of the importance of when we choose to evaluate and the factors that might affect the data we collect. Continue reading
Posted in Appropriate inference, Appropriate measurement, Appropriate reporting, Friday Funnies
Tagged heaven, hell, judgement
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