Blog links November 7: Impact Evaluation Existential Angst, Our Innate Grasp of Probability, big data, and More…
- On the CGD blog, Lant Pritchett offers his 4-part smell test for whether your impact evaluation is asking a question that matters.
- On the Monkey Cage blog, Macartan Humphreys on how to make field experiments (in politics) more ethical – very useful discussion, although his suggestion that one solution is that researchers should try to avoid doing the intervention themselves seems to me debatable – I think it deals with the paperwork concerns and deflects blame, but creates this dichotomy between researchers subject to ethical constraints and others who are not.
- Jason Kerwin on a few highlights from the NEUDC conference.