A reply: framing questions about alcohol research

More Enduring Questions in Cognitive IS Research: A Reply

Framing research

Across Europe, most people will nowadays accept that human activity is causing climate change and that we need to do something about it. However, this is clearly not the case in the US, and the way in which the perception of climate change evolved there reveals a serious problem in science communication. As communications researcher Matthew Nisbet from the American University at Washington, DC ...

Globalization, Growth and Distribution: Framing the Questions

In the last two decades, across a range of countries high growth rates have reduced poverty but have been accompanied by rising inequality. This paper is motivated by this stylized fact, and by the strong distributional concerns that persist among populations and policy makers alike, despite the poverty reduction observed in official statistics where growth has been sufficiently high. This seem...

Reproducing or Constructing? Some Questions about Transcription in Social Research

Research Designs That Address Evolutionary Questions about Medical Disorders

Diseases result usually from webs of interacting causes of enormous complexity, while human minds seek explanatory principles of extraordinary simplicity. This conflict gives rise to a central problem for medicine. Explanations of disease, and most programmes of medical research, tend to emphasize a single cause, while most diseases result from multiple environmental factors interacting with se...