Tag: overlooked choices
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Overlooked choices shape research outcomes: what do “researcher degrees of freedom” mean for how science informs policy?
By Jonathan A. Walter, UC Davis Center for Watershed Sciences Research results can depend not only on the data itself, but on how they are analyzed.1 This is importantly different from how stakeholders with different interests may interpret results differently, perhaps (consciously or subconsciously) motivated by their interest in the outcome. A recent study “Same…