Posts Tagged “john stuart mill”
Randomised Controlled Trials: as old as the Old Testament
by Stephen Tall on May 1, 2014
I never tire of reminding liberals suspicious of evidence-based policy informed by Randomised Controlled Trials that they are literally are a liberal idea: they’re founded on father-of-liberalism John Stuart Mill’s ‘method of difference’ through which the observed difference between two (…)
Tim Harford on the ‘evidence revolution’ taking place in education
by Stephen Tall on April 27, 2013
Tim ‘Undercover Economist’ Harford has a terrific piece in today’s FT — An evidence revolution — highlighting the use of research to inform and improve education. He picks up on the aspect of evidence-informed policy which has always excited my (…)
