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Book: Evidence-Based Policy: A Practical Guide to Doing It Better is Published
Professor Cartwright and her co-author Jeremy Hardie argue the facts used to formulate policy should not be gathered from randomized controlled trials (RCTs) because they tell policy makers that a policy produced a result within a given scope, but they do not tell policy makers why it happened (Evidence-based Policy, Pg. IX). Cartwright, Nancy, and Jeremy Hardie. Evidence-Based Policy : A Practical Guide to Doing It Better. Oxford ; New York, Oxford University Press, 20 Sept. 2012. -
Selected Works: What’s so Special about Empirical Adequacy?
Bhakthavatsalam and Cartwright discuss what they call the "prime topic" in the Philosophy of Science which is how one decides to choose a Theory from among competing theories. Bhakthavatsalam, Sindhuja, and Nancy Cartwright. “What's so special about empirical adequacy?.” European journal for philosophy of science vol. 7,3 (2017): 445-465. doi:10.1007/s13194-017-0171-7 -
Selected Works: What Evidence Should Guidelines Take Note Of?
Professor Cartwright provides a follow-up to her thesis from "Evidence-based Policy" regarding randomized controlled trials (RCTs). If we are to accept that RCTs are not capable of being catch-all source of evidence in general policy, what other evidence do we gather? Cartwright, Nancy. “What Evidence Should Guidelines Take Note Of?” Journal of Evaluation in Clinical Practice, vol. 24, no. 5, Wiley, Oct. 2018, pp. 1139–44, doi:10.1111/jep.12959. -
Selected Works: Meeting Our Standards for Educational Justice: Doing Our Best with the Evidence
Professor Cartwright and her co-authors draw on the dismal results of the "evidence-based policy" of the United States' No Child Left Behind Act and explores why what may have caused the policy to not produce the results it sought to produce. Joyce, Kathryn E., and Nancy Cartwright. “Meeting Our Standards for Educational Justice: Doing Our Best with the Evidence.” Theory & Research in Education, vol. 16, no. 1, Mar. 2018, pp. 3–23, doi:10.1177/1477878518756565. -
Nancy Cartwright asks, When Should We Trust or Criticise Science?
Professor Cartwright first gives a few reasons which she calls “insufficient” such as, “Science is rigorous,” “Science is objective,” “Science produces general truths by generalizing from well-tested results,” then offers an example pertaining to the “rigorous” reason with an experiment on high temperature superconductors. Institute of Art and Ideas. “When Should We Trust or Criticise Science? | Nancy Cartwright - YouTube.” Www.Youtube.com, May 2020, youtu.be/Jx9KSlxReAs. Accessed 7 Dec. 2020.
