External Validity and Evidence Accumulation / Tara Slough and Scott A. Tyson.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Slough, Tara, author.

Tyson, Scott A., author.

Series:

Elements in quantitative and computational methods for social science 2398-4023.

Elements in Quantitative and Computational Methods for the Social Sciences Series

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Meta-analysis.

Social sciences--Research--Methodology.

Social sciences.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (98 pages) : digital, PDF file(s).

Edition:

First edition.

Place of Publication:

Cambridge, England : Cambridge University Press, 2024.

Summary:

The accumulation of empirical evidence that has been collected in multiple contexts, places, and times requires a more comprehensive understanding of empirical research than is typically required for interpreting the findings from individual studies. We advance a novel conceptual framework where causal mechanisms are central to characterizing social phenomena that transcend context, place, or time. We distinguish various concepts of external validity, all of which characterize the relationship between the effects produced by mechanisms in different settings. Approaches to evidence accumulation require careful consideration of cross-study features, including theoretical considerations that link constituent studies and measurement considerations about how phenomena are quantifed. Our main theoretical contribution is developing uniting principles that constitute the qualitative and quantitative assumptions that form the basis for a quantitative relationship between constituent studies. We then apply our framework to three approaches to studying general social phenomena: meta-analysis, replication, and extrapolation

Notes:

Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 29 Nov 2024).

Description based on print version record.

Includes bibliographical references.

ISBN:

9781009375825

1009375822

9781009375849

1009375849

9781009375856

1009375857