What if researchers had to rate — publicly — the evidentiary robustness of the major points they made in books, opinion pieces…all their communications for non-specialists?
What if research communicators had to do same?
Oh, what a wonderful world. I think.…
I recently wrote about how creating a minimum viable index could be one of the most useful steps a leanly resourced research comms shop could take.
But useful how?
A list member sent my email to his director, who responded that although indices play well with media, they fall short for actual decision making, and that creating tools and providing data for decision-support modeling was a more immediate priority.…