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Clear-cut designs versus the uniformity of experimental practice

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  06 November 2001

Francesco Guala
Affiliation:
Centre for Philosophy of the Social Sciences, University of Exeter, Exeter EX4 4RJ, United [email protected] www.exeter.ac.uk/shipss/sociology/staff/francesco/index.html

Abstract

Clear-cut designs have a number of methodological virtues, with respect to internal and external validity, which I illustrate by means of informal causal analysis. In contrast, a more uniform experimental practice across disciplines may not lead to progress if causal relations in the human sciences are highly dependent on the details of the context.

Type
Brief Report
Copyright
© 2001 Cambridge University Press

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