Manchester Online Seminars on Evidential Pluralism: Getting Results Reports Right.
| Dates: | 26 May 2026 |
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| Times: | 15:00 - 16:30 |
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| What is it: | Talk |
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| Organiser: | School of Social Sciences |
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| Speaker: | Nancy Cartwright |
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Just how we phrase the results report of an empirical study matters because the form and content of the report suggests what can and cannot be done with the study results and what the study can and cannot provide evidence for. This fact about results reports should not be surprising since, as JL Austin taught, ‘We do things with words’. I will argue that getting the report right requires both serious understanding of the empirical and theoretical work in the field and, generally, adopting a clear theoretical perspective, which then needs to be made explicit. I illustrate with examples of education studies and probably medical ones as well.
All welcome! Please register for a meeting link from the MOSEP webpage (under More Information).
Speaker
Nancy Cartwright
Organisation: Durham & UCSD
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