Journal of Quantitative Criminology, Vol. 30, No. 1 (March 2014), pp. 97-112 (16 pages) Objectives Place-based policing experiments have led to encouraging findings regarding the ability of the police ...

The Annals of the American Academy of Political and Social Science, Vol. 589, Misleading Evidence and Evidence-Led Policy: Making Social Science More Experimental (Sep., 2003), pp. 114-149 (36 pages) ...

A new statistical tool can help researchers get meaningful results when a randomized experiment, considered the gold standard, is not possible. A new statistical tool can help researchers get ...

Thomas D. Cook, a professor of sociology, psychology, education, and social policy at Northwestern University, criticizes education researchers’ reluctance to perform randomized experiments. He points ...

Randomized experiments have long been a cornerstone of scientific research. And many tech companies run randomized tests to learn from the huge amounts of data their customers generate. In 2019, ...

Interpreting the research findings reported in the Chronicle and other journalistic sources that keep us up-to-date on the latest happenings in and knowledge about education is a challenge for ...