Weekly links April 3: scaling up in perspective, surveying with mobile apps, and more…
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- Pew research on “what we learned about surveying with mobile apps”: “Immediate responses and feedback can be helpful and revealing” but “App response rates were lower than Web rates overall and for each of the 14 surveys we conducted”
- Freakonomics asks “How do we know what really works in healthcare?” – a podcast about RCTs. I like this comment from a doctor about scaling up “I think Medicare’s comment was that it’s really hard to do. We’re not sure we could scale it. Well, we f***ing scaled open heart surgery. We scaled separating Siamese twins. We scaled transplanting hearts and lungs, curing complex cancers. We’re sequencing the human genome. You’re telling me we can’t have a nurse go out and check on your mom or grandmother in a highly organized, well-structured, well-trained intervention for which someone’s already doing it for hundreds and hundreds of patients every day?”
- Tales from a graduate class exercise on calculating p-curves from Will Gervais
- The Journal of Development Studies special issue on evaluating data quality in Africa is currently open access.
The JDE papers do not seem to be open access at the moment…?
Apologies if that is the case (it is JDS, not JDE). Morten Jerven who is the guest editor and one of the authors said that it was:https://twitter.com/MJerven/status/581504518912888832