Lauren Supplee
Appearances
Freakonomics Radio
Policymaking Is Not a Science — Yet (Update)
Implementation science. Implementation science. Implementation science.
Freakonomics Radio
Policymaking Is Not a Science — Yet (Update)
It's the study of how programs get implemented into practice and how the quality of that implementation may affect how well that program works or doesn't work.
Freakonomics Radio
Policymaking Is Not a Science — Yet (Update)
This whole science is maybe 15 years old. It's really coming out of this movement of evidence-based policy and programs where people said, well, we have this program. It appears to change important outcomes. Let's just put it out there. And then we quickly realized that there are a lot of issues and actually that put it out there is far more complicated.
Freakonomics Radio
Policymaking Is Not a Science — Yet (Update)
A lot of the evidence-based programs we have were designed by academic researchers who were testing it in the maybe more ideal circumstances that they had available to them. That might have included graduate students. It might have been a school district that was very amenable to research.
Freakonomics Radio
Policymaking Is Not a Science — Yet (Update)
And then you take the results of that and trying to put that into another location is where the challenge happened.
Freakonomics Radio
Policymaking Is Not a Science — Yet (Update)
People said, let's just put it out there. And then we quickly realized that's far more complicated.