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Jul 24

Counterfactual thinking – common and useful

Andi

Counterfactual isn’t a synonym for control group. Here’s a brief Open Encyclopedia of Cognitive Science entry on counterfactual thinking, which argues that it is “extremely common and profoundly useful in ordinary life.” Whether or not you believe that your impact evaluation is counterfactual,...

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Jun 11

Whom and context again

Andi

I reread Mayne’s (2019) on contribution analysis today and see he also allows a “what works for whom”: “… a more interesting and important contribution claim is around this evaluation question: How and why has the intervention (or component) made a difference, or not, and for whom?” (p....

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