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Author: Karel Mertens

  • Ensuring research reliability: a new tool for detecting weak evidence

    Theory & methods

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    2nd February 2026

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    Daniel Lewis

    Karel Mertens

    Policy-makers need to know that the research evidence on which their decisions are based is reliable. A powerful new testing method can assess the strengths and weaknesses of instruments used to analyse complex webs of cause-and-effect relationships – and thereby deliver better-informed advice.

    Ensuring research reliability: a new tool for detecting weak evidence

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