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Nancy Cartwright: Understanding and misunderstanding randomized controlled trials
Nancy Cartwright is Professor of Philosophy at the Department of Philosophy, University of Durham and at the University of California, San Diego ABSTRACTRCTs are valuable tools whose use is spreading i

Nancy Cartwright: Understanding and misunderstanding randomized controlled trials
Professor Nancy Cartwright speaking at a workshop at the Institute for Futures Studies in Stockholm, October 2016. Find Nancy's presentation here: http://www.iffs.se/en/calendar/evidensbaserad-poli

Nancy Cartwright: Understanding and misunderstanding randomized controlled trials
Professor Nancy Cartwright speaking at a workshop at the Institute for Futures Studies in Stockholm, October 2016. Find Nancy's presentation here: http://www.iffs.se/en/calendar/evidensbaserad-poli

Pol Campos-Mercade
I use randomized controlled-trials (RCT), lab experiments, and theory to investigate issues related to education, health, and behavioral economics. I am especially interested in studying how incentive

Completed: Social networks and immigrant integration
Is it possible to improve immigrants' social and economic situation by matching them with native Swedes? This projects seeks the answer to that question.

Reality minus minus - James Ladyman, Professor of Philosophy
There is plenty of techno-optimistic takes on virtual worlds. They will offer us opportunity for new and exciting experiences, as real as reality, it is said. But what about the costs? In a talk from
Freedom as Non-domination and Democratic Inclusion
Res Publica. doi:10.1007/s11158-016-9348-8 Abstract According to neo-republicans, democracy is morally justified because it is among the prerequisites for freedom as non-domination. The claim that democ
A popular misapplication of evolutionary modeling to the study of human cooperation
Evolution and Human Behavior, Volume 38, Issue 3, Pages 421–427. Abstract To examine the evolutionary basis of a behavior, an established approach (known as the phenotypic gambit) is to assume that the b
The intelligence explosion revisited
Foresight, doi.org/10.1108/FS-04-2018-0042 Abstract PurposeThe claim that super intelligent machines constitute a major existential risk was recently defended in Nick Bostrom’s book Superintelligence and
When Birth Spacing Does and Does Not Matter for Child Survival: An International Comparison using the DHS
Demography journal Abstract A large body of research has found an association between short birth intervals and the risk of infant mortality in developing countries, but recent work on other perinatal o