The View from Cullingworth

Cullingworth nestles in Yorkshire's wonderful South Pennines where I once was the local councillor. These are my views - on politics, food, beer and the stupidity of those who want to tell me what to think or do. And a little on mushrooms.

Showing posts with label qualitative research. Show all posts

Showing posts with label qualitative research. Show all posts

Wednesday, 7 April 2010

The Smoking Ban Problem - polls, libraries and predicting future behaviour

*** Many experts on polling question the effectiveness of the “what if” question: “If politician X was leader of Party Y why would you be mo...

Wednesday, 6 January 2010

Soft outcomes need hard measures to be acceptable in policy-making

*** Julian Dobson writes Living with Rats – you should all read it. Not only is it well-written, insightful and thoughtful but he talks ab...

Sunday, 1 November 2009

Policy-based evidence making (or How Government is killing science with help from academics)

If I hear the phrase “evidence-based policy making” drop from the lips of a Labour minister or one of their bureaucratic lickspittles I shal...

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