I use causal graphical methods to demonstrate some of the methodological problems that occur in trying to identify this direct effect, and I offer some suggestions as to how they might be addressed.

This course will focus on methodological issues pertaining to the design, analysis and interpretation of comparative effectiveness research studies. Special focus will be placed on comparative ...

Thomas Hoebel, Jo Reichertz, René Tuma, Visibilities of Violence. On Visual Violence Research and Current Methodological Challenges, Historical Social Research / Historische Sozialforschung, Vol. 47, ...

I don’t have a problem, in theory, with ranking presidential performance. But these exercises suffer from a number of intractable problems of execution. First, what are the criteria? Does ...

The trends in educational digitization demonstrate the growing incorporation of technology into teaching and learning methods, with pedagogical strategies tailored to the digital setting and the ...

Findings of psychological research now regularly escape the ivory towers of academe to permeate popular media. This results in misunderstandings, misinterpretations, and misquoting of research ...

More important, when research on this subject isn’t conducted, or is conducted poorly, it’s gender-questioning youth who suffer the most.