{"id":2847,"date":"2023-11-17T03:34:36","date_gmt":"2023-11-17T03:34:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/jodischneider.com\/blog\/?p=2847"},"modified":"2023-11-17T03:34:36","modified_gmt":"2023-11-17T03:34:36","slug":"qotd-what-policymakers-need","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/jodischneider.com\/blog\/2023\/11\/17\/qotd-what-policymakers-need\/","title":{"rendered":"QOTD: What policymakers need&#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-pullquote\"><blockquote><p>What policymakers need are things that we [researchers] don&#8217;t value so much. Meta-analyses. What do we know about a given topic. If we survey 1000 papers on a given topic, what does the preponderance of the evidence say about a thing? Obviously the incentive structures in academia are about smaller mechanisms, or about making those smaller distinctions in the body of knowledge and that&#8217;s how knowledge advances and research advances, but for the policymaking space, you need to be able to translate that, like hundreds of years, half a century, decades of what we know about education, about inequality, about the STEM fields, about the research ecosystem, into that.<\/p><cite><a href=\"https:\/\/www.ias.edu\/news\/2022\/alondra-nelson-appointed-perform-duties-ostp-director\" data-type=\"link\" data-id=\"https:\/\/www.ias.edu\/news\/2022\/alondra-nelson-appointed-perform-duties-ostp-director\">Alondra Nelson<\/a>,  discussion after the <a href=\"https:\/\/casbs.stanford.edu\/news\/elizabeth-anderson-and-alondra-nelson-win-2023-sage-casbs-award\">2023 Sage-CASBS Award<\/a> Lecture at the <a href=\"https:\/\/casbs.stanford.edu\">Center for Advanced Study in the Behavioral Sciences<\/a>, November 16, 2023 [<a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=4CO8xf3MzC8&amp;t=5084s\" data-type=\"link\" data-id=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=4CO8xf3MzC8&amp;t=5084s\">video<\/a>]<\/cite><\/blockquote><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>What policymakers need are things that we [researchers] don&#8217;t value so much. Meta-analyses. What do we know about a given topic. If we survey 1000 papers on a given topic, what does the preponderance of the evidence say about a thing? Obviously the incentive structures in academia are about smaller mechanisms, or about making those [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[760,182],"tags":[759,757,756,758],"class_list":["post-2847","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-policymaking","category-scholarly-communication","tag-knowledge-translation","tag-meta-analyses","tag-policy","tag-summariziation"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/jodischneider.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2847","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/jodischneider.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/jodischneider.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jodischneider.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jodischneider.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2847"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/jodischneider.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2847\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2851,"href":"https:\/\/jodischneider.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2847\/revisions\/2851"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/jodischneider.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2847"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jodischneider.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2847"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jodischneider.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2847"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}