In medicine, I think evidence-based research and - crucial, this - evidence-based practice is quite robust. Insofar as social scientific veracity is concerned, the wide range of variables does create problems. And yet?
I have found some examples of plausible EBR and EBP, most notably in the Olweus AntiSchool Bullying programme, which consistently, it seems, reduces bullying in schools.
Paul, you raise an important issue in the social sciences and in public health generally. Please see my project 'the art and science of health promotion' and the discussion.
Please let me know if the following references/sites are helpful to you:
1. Towards Evidence-based Practice in Science ... - University of Leeds
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by M Ratcliffe - Cited by 6 - Related articles
diagnostic assessment can be used by teachers to provide reliable evidence about their pupils' ... however, that greater use of findings from science education research on ..... understanding the natural world, but this does not make it perfect.
2. How Reliable Are the Social Sciences? - The New York Times
https://opinionator.blogs.nytimes.com/2012/05/.../how-reliable-are-the-social-sciences...Cached
May 17, 2012 - But when it comes to generating reliable scientific knowledge, there is ... As a result, most social science research falls far short of the natural ...
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Please let me know if the following references/sites are helpful to you in the area of social sciences:
1. Finding the evidence for social science reviews
https://www.kcl.ac.uk/sspp/departments/politicaleconomy/research/cep/.../wp19.pdfCached
by L Grayson - 2003 - Cited by 77 - Related articles
Key words: social sciences; literature searching; research reviews ... http://www. sbs.gov.uk/content/research/External-Version-R-Strategy.pdf whose aim is ... Education, Research in Practice (RIP), and the Centre for Evidence Based Social ..... possibly dangerous assumption (Grayson, 2002)16 – and that the only reputable.
2. Credible Methodology - Springer
www.springer.com/cda/content/document/cda.../9783319190204-c1.pdf?SGWID...Cached
racy of methods in depicting reality and the conclusions and decisions based on ... In the positivist approach, social science research follows the rules of the natu- ... Counts as Credible Evidence in Applied Research and Evaluation Practice?
3. Evidence-based policy research: critical review of ... - unesdoc - Unesco
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It is possible to have bad evidence-based policy making if the evidence ... of the link between social science research and policy-making, in developed as well as ...... also result in credible answers, which
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Dennis Mazur
Please see attached reference (freely downloadable from above site)
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Dennis Mazur
Glenn and Dennis
Your art and science text Glenn and your referral to the NYT are very welcomed. I see also that there is more to read from you both and am on the trail.
I think that one of the basic issues to your question is the research paradigm (and subsequent epistemology and ontology) you place yourself in. In social science, you have several other stances to which abide to (as Glenn and Dennis have mentioned).
I think Paradigmatic Controversies, Contradictions, and Emerging Confluences, Revisited, by Y. Lincoln, S. Lynham & E. Guba — The SAGE handbook of qualitative research (2011) has a great synthesis on this issue (page 101's table is great).
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