Field Experiments and Their Critics Essays on the Uses and Abuses of Experimentation in the Social Sciences

Name: Field Experiments and Their Critics Essays on the Uses and Abuses of Experimentation in the Social Sciences
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ISBN: 9780300169409

ISBN-10: 030016940X

ISBN-13: 9780300169409

Edition: 2014

Authors: Dawn Langan Teele

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In recent years, social scientists have engaged in a deep debate over the methods appropriate to their research. Their long reliance on passive observational collection of information has been challenged by proponents of experimental methods designed to precisely infer causal effects through active intervention in the social world. Some scholars claim that field experiments represent a new gold standard and the best way forward, while others insist that these methods carry inherent inconsistencies, limitations, or ethical dilemmas that observational approaches do not. This unique collection of essays by the most influential figures on every side of this debate reveals its most important…

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List price: $23.00
Copyright year: 2014
Publisher: Yale University Press
Publication date: 1/7/2014
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 272
Size: 6.14" wide x 9.25" long x 0.59" tall
Weight: 0.924
Language: English