Warranting the use of causal claims

<p>To what use can causal claims established in good studies be put? We give examples of studies from which inaccurate inferences were made about target policy situations. The usual diagnosis is that the studies in question lack external validity, which means that the same results do not hold...

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Main Authors: Menno Rol, Nancy Cartwright
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: University of the Basque Country 2012-06-01
Series:Theoria
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Online Access:http://www.ehu.es/ojs/index.php/THEORIA/article/view/4075