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Foreword
Author(s) -
Katherine Hayles,
Peter Krapp,
Rita Raley,
Yuk Hui,
Bernard Stiegler,
Daniel Ross
Publication year - 1993
Publication title -
medical journal of australia
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.904
H-Index - 131
eISSN - 1326-5377
pISSN - 0025-729X
DOI - 10.5694/j.1326-5377.1993.tb121989.x
Subject(s) - citation , computer science , information retrieval , library science
Many think of J-PAL as an advocate for randomized controlled trials (RCTs). This is true, of course, and the world is better for it. Others realize that J-PAL stands for more than econometric improvements. J-PAL is also about collective responsibility, for example. By bringing the laboratory model to the social sciences, J-PAL promotes new ways of designing, staffing, documenting, crediting, and replicating experiments that produce reliable results. Indeed, researchers leading this movement seem to have priorities that go beyond producing yet another paper for their own CVs. The shared goal they pursue instead—relentlessly and with great integrity—is to discover meaningful answers to important questions.