{"id":290,"date":"2007-10-02T15:52:00","date_gmt":"2007-10-02T21:52:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/pubcrim\/2007\/10\/02\/thinking-experimentally\/"},"modified":"2007-10-02T15:52:00","modified_gmt":"2007-10-02T21:52:00","slug":"thinking-experimentally","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/pubcrim\/2007\/10\/02\/thinking-experimentally\/","title":{"rendered":"thinking experimentally"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/pubcrim\/files\/blogger_import\/423-random.gif\"><img decoding=\"async\" id=\"BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5116798772674768866\" alt=\"\" src=\"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/pubcrim\/files\/blogger_import\/424-random.gif\" border=\"0\" \/><\/a>as chair, i attend far more meetings than talks these days. <a href=\"http:\/\/www.iq.harvard.edu\/blog\/sss\/archives\/2007\/10\/tom_cook_on_whe.shtml#more\">there&#8217;s a talk at harvard today<\/a> that i&#8217;d love to sink my teeth into:<\/p>\n<div><\/div>\n<p><\/p>\n<div>The Applied Statistics Workshop presents another installment this week with Thomas Cook, Department of Sociology, Northwestern University presenting a talk entitled, &#8220;When the causal estimates from randomized experiments and non-experiments coincide: Empirical findings from the within-study comparison literature.&#8221; <\/div>\n<p><\/p>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>i&#8217;ve always been fascinated with social experiments and the collision between experimental and non-experimental methods. a lot of what we know about this subject comes from the literature on employment and training interventions. my reading of the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.people.fas.harvard.edu\/~jgrimmer\/Cook.doc\">cook, shadish, and wong paper<\/a> discussed today is that non-experimental methods might fare better outside this context. hmmm. this sort of work strikes me as absolutely fundamental to understanding and contextualizing social scientific knowledge.<\/div>\n<p><\/p>\n<div>coincidentally, i&#8217;m editing proofs right now for <a href=\"http:\/\/www.soc.umn.edu\/~uggen\/Uggen_Experiment_07.pdf\">thinking experimentally<\/a>, a li&#8217;l essay written for <a href=\"http:\/\/www.rowmanlittlefield.com\/Catalog\/SingleBook.shtml?command=Search&amp;db=%5EDB\/CATALOG.db&amp;eqSKUdata=0742560279\"><em>experiments in criminology and law<\/em><\/a>, edited by christine horne and mike lovaglia<em>. <\/em>my contribution is an homage to the fine graduate methods training that i received at the wizversity &#8212; and, i suppose, an apologia for straying from the course.<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>as chair, i attend far more meetings than talks these days. there&#8217;s a talk at harvard today that i&#8217;d love to sink my teeth into: The Applied Statistics Workshop presents another installment this week with Thomas Cook, Department of Sociology, Northwestern University presenting a talk entitled, &#8220;When the causal estimates from randomized experiments and non-experiments [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-290","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/pubcrim\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/290","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/pubcrim\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/pubcrim\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/pubcrim\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/pubcrim\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=290"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/pubcrim\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/290\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/pubcrim\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=290"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/pubcrim\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=290"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/pubcrim\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=290"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}