Uncontrolled The Surprising Payoff of Trial-And-Error for Business, Politics, and Society

Name: Uncontrolled The Surprising Payoff of Trial-And-Error for Business, Politics, and Society
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ISBN: 9780465023240

ISBN-10: 046502324X

ISBN-13: 9780465023240

Edition: 2012

Authors: Jim Manzi

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How do we know which social and economic policies work, which should be continued, and which should be changed? Jim Manzi argues that throughout history, various methods have been attempted—except for controlled experimentation. Experiments provide the feedback loop that allows us, in certain limited ways, to identify error in our beliefs as a first step to correcting them. Over the course of the first half of the twentieth century, scientists invented a methodology for executing controlled experiments to evaluate certain kinds of proposed social interventions. This technique goes by many names in different contexts (randomized control trials, randomized field experiments, clinical trials,…

Book details

List price: $47.00
Copyright year: 2012
Publisher: Basic Books
Publication date: 5/1/2012
Binding: Hardcover
Pages: 320
Size: 6.50" wide x 9.53" long x 1.10" tall
Weight: 1.144
Language: English