Humble Analysis: The Practice of Joint Fact-Finding
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Book Description
Joint fact-finding is a cooperative venture and communication among the participants is critical to success. Analysts have begun to recognize this and have started to adjust their craft to reflect the communicative character of their work. Non-analysts usually judge experts' opinions by their value, effectiveness, and legitimacy rather than soundness of the conclusions. Accordingly, experts must recognize the importance of these non-scientific criteria, and learn to communicate better with their non-expert colleagues. Practically, this means explaining the rationale and implications behind their findings in an easily digestible way. Andrews uses real cases to illustrate his argument that analysts should marry process to analysis, spread information, reason inductively, broaden their analytic scope, put analytic results into lay terms, and constantly seek out feedback on their work.
About the Author
CLINTON J. ANDREWS is Assistant Professor at the Edward J. Bloustein School of Planning and Public Policy at Rutgers University. His previous works include Regulating Regional Power Systems (Quorum, 1995), and Industrial Ecology and Global Change (Cambridge, 1995).
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