Policy Problems and Policy Theory - Characteristics of Problems - Errors of the third type and problem structuring
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What is problem structuring?
What are the three types of statistical errors?
- Type I error: concluding the intervention had an effect while it doesn't
- Type II error: concluding the intervention had no effect while it had
- Type II error: solving the wrong problem
What are the 3 forms of a type 3 error?
- Defining the boundary: stopping too soon with the search for possible interconnected problems (wrong meta-problem)
- Defining the standard: choose the wrong/forget needs or values
- Defining the formal representation: choosing a wrong model (leaving essential factor out, suggesting illogical causal relations or a false quantitative strenght of a causal relation)
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