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Reactivity in social scientific experiments: what is it and how is it different (and worse) than a Placebo effect?
European Journal for Philosophy of Science ( IF 1.5 ) Pub Date : 2021-04-20 , DOI: 10.1007/s13194-021-00350-z
María Jiménez-Buedo

Reactivity, or the phenomenon by which subjects tend to modify their behavior in virtue of their being studied upon, is often cited as one of the most important difficulties involved in social scientific experiments, and yet, there is to date a persistent conceptual muddle when dealing with the many dimensions of reactivity. This paper offers a conceptual framework for reactivity that draws on an interventionist approach to causality. The framework allows us to offer an unambiguous definition of reactivity and distinguishes it from placebo effects. Further, it allows us to distinguish between benign and malignant forms of the phenomenon, depending on whether reactivity constitutes a danger to the validity of the causal inferences drawn from experimental data.



中文翻译:

社会科学实验中的反应性:与安慰剂作用相比,它有什么作用?有什么区别(甚至更糟)?

反应性或被研究者倾向于通过对其进行研究来改变其行为的现象通常被认为是社会科学实验中涉及的最重要的困难之一,然而,迄今为止,在进行交易时仍然存在一个概念上的困惑。具有反应性的许多方面。本文提供了一种反应性的概念框架,该框架借鉴了因果关系的干预主义方法。该框架使我们能够提供明确的反应性定义,并将其与安慰剂效应区分开。此外,它允许我们根据反应性是否构成对从实验数据得出的因果推论的有效性构成危险的现象,区分现象的良性和恶性形式。

更新日期:2021-04-20
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