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ERIC Number: EJ484382
Record Type: Journal
Publication Date: 1994
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Miscounting Social Ills.
Gilbert, Neil
Society, v31 n3 p18-26 Mar-Apr 1994
Deliberations about social policy often center on estimates of harm or benefit generated by different interest groups. Problems in what is measured and how it is measured are illustrated by a discussion of research into sexual abuse and rape. Advocacy research is an unreliable foundation for social policy formation. (SLD)
Descriptors: Advocacy, Child Abuse, Computation, Data Collection, Data Interpretation, Decision Making, Estimation (Mathematics), Evaluation Methods, Measurement Techniques, Policy Formation, Poverty, Public Policy, Research Methodology, Research Problems, Sexual Abuse, Social Problems
Publication Type: Opinion Papers; Reports - Evaluative; Journal Articles
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Language: English
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