Credible judgement requires methods and context appropriate to the question, with failure and missing voices visible.
The corpus contains studies, practitioner accounts, demonstrations, proposals and questions. These establish different things. Local knowledge and negative cases can reveal what a generic measure misses.
An interpretation of the recorded discussion. The passages below have different roles: support, illustration, qualification, challenge, proposed mechanism or open question.
supports · DAY 1 · 29:07
Explicitly values RCTs for suitable questions; not a rejection of experimental evidence.
illustrates · DAY 1 · 11:49
Example is an account of interpretation, not medical advice about hygiene.
qualifies · DAY 1 · 56:52
Sixty interviews are not a prevalence survey.
Speaker
Caryl FeldackerSenior Program Officer, Data and Technology Adoption, Gender Equality Division · Gates FoundationSpeaking in a personal capacityLinkedIn ↗ Unidentified speaker
qualifies · DAY 1 · 16:35
Open standards alone do not remove participation costs.
proposes mechanism · DAY 1 · 15:48
Failures must actually be reported to enter the corpus.
Speaker
Unidentified speaker
qualifies · DAY 1 · 35:15
Difference of emphasis with the preceding culture argument.
Speaker
Becky FaithSenior Research Fellow; Development Lecturer · FCDO; Institute of Development StudiesSpeaking in a personal capacityLinkedIn ↗ Unidentified speaker