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By: Vipul

Vipul — Fri, 10 Sep 2010 19:48:51 +0000

Since there are no web links for the pieces you refer to, I don’t have a full understanding of the arguments that you’re referencing. So, what I say is based simply on the impressions that your post gives.

I don’t have a problem with scholarship done by advocacy groups — the main question for me is whether the specific content of their scholarship is of the kind that would carry value for people who don’t already share the position they’re advocating for. Some advocacy scholarship does exactly this, by providing facts, experiences, and perspectives that would be of value to anybody thinking about the topic at hand. A lot of advocacy scholarship, however, simply assumes the position it is advocating for, draws sweeping generalisations, and does not try to establish key factual claims that would convince people not already convinced of their factual claims. They may be so steeped in the truth of their claims that they forget that others reading their work need to see the evidence.

Personal experience and the use of anecdotes could be valuable tools in understanding the impact of laws, but when a single anecdote is used to establish a large-scale generality without even attempting to deal with large-scale data that might support or oppose that generality, I remain unconvinced and suspect sloppy scholarship.