{"id":2,"date":"2024-07-31T13:25:59","date_gmt":"2024-07-31T12:25:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/evidential-pluralism\/?page_id=2"},"modified":"2024-10-17T11:32:20","modified_gmt":"2024-10-17T10:32:20","slug":"sample-page","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/evidential-pluralism\/","title":{"rendered":"Home"},"content":{"rendered":"\r\n<p><br \/><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"wp-image-123 aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/evidential-pluralism\/files\/2024\/09\/EP-Logo.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"263\" height=\"113\" \/><\/p>\r\n<p>How should we assess whether an intervention works? The orthodox &#8216;evidence-based&#8217; approach relies almost exclusively on randomized controlled trials (RCTs).<\/p>\r\n<p>But sometimes, an intervention that works well in a RCT does not work well in another context. And sometimes evidence other than RCTs can help us judge whether the intervention works.<\/p>\r\n<p>Evidence of mechanisms, in particular, can often help us judge whether an intervention works in the context in which it will be applied.<\/p>\r\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"wp-image-143 aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/evidential-pluralism\/files\/2024\/10\/ep.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"490\" height=\"344\" \/><\/p>\r\n<p>Evidential Pluralism is a theory of causal enquiry that takes evidence of mechanisms seriously. It holds that:<\/p>\r\n<ul>\r\n<li>\r\n<p>Establishing causation normally requires establishing that the putative cause and effect are both appropriately correlated and connected by an appropriate mechanism (\u2018object pluralism\u2019).<\/p>\r\n<\/li>\r\n<li>\r\n<p>Evaluating causation requires scrutinising both association studies and mechanistic studies, where available (\u2018study pluralism\u2019).<\/p>\r\n<\/li>\r\n<\/ul>\r\n<p><img class=\"wp-image-127 aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/evidential-pluralism\/files\/2024\/09\/divider.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"20\" \/><\/p>\r\n<p>For a quick introduction to Evidential Pluralism and its applications, see<\/p>\r\n<ul>\r\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/riviste.unimi.it\/index.php\/thereasoner\/issue\/view\/2403\/679\"><strong>Focus on Evidential Pluralism<\/strong><\/a>, <em>The Reasoner <\/em>15(6), 2021.<\/li>\r\n<\/ul>\r\n<p>Evidential Pluralism has been applied to <a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/evidential-pluralism\/ebm\/\">Medicine<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/evidential-pluralism\/ebp\/\">Policy<\/a>, and <a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/evidential-pluralism\/ebl\/\">Law,<\/a> for example.<\/p>\r\n\r\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>How should we assess whether an intervention works? The orthodox &#8216;evidence-based&#8217; approach relies almost exclusively on randomized controlled trials (RCTs).&hellip; <a class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/evidential-pluralism\/\">Read more <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Home<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":83129,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/evidential-pluralism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/2"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/evidential-pluralism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/evidential-pluralism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/evidential-pluralism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/83129"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/evidential-pluralism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2"}],"version-history":[{"count":24,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/evidential-pluralism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/2\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":185,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/evidential-pluralism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/2\/revisions\/185"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/evidential-pluralism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}