11 research outputs found
Understanding Intimate Partner Violence Service Delivery for Latinx Survivors in Rural Areas
Using a statewide survey, this exploratory, cross-sectional study examined 78 domestic violence (DV) service organizations? service delivery practices and perceived challenges to serving Latinx survivors in the context of rurality. Findings showed that DV organizations in rural areas perceived more challenges to delivering culturally appropriate services for Latinx survivors compared to those in other geographic settings even after accounting for client characteristics, service provision characteristics, and community resources. The study finding offers critical insights to ensure and enhance the provision of linguistically and culturally accessible services for rural Latinx survivors of intimate partner violence
Aggregating expert judgement
In a paper written some 25 years ago, I distinguished three contexts in which
one might wish to combine expert judgements of uncertainty: the expert problem, the group
decision problem and the textbook problem. Over the intervening years much has been written
on the first two, which have the focus of a single decision context, but little on the third,
though the closely related field of meta-analysis has developed considerably. With many
developments in internet technology, particularly in relation to interactivity and communication,
the textbook problem is gaining in importance since data and expert judgements
can be made available over the web to be used by many different individuals to shape their
own beliefs in many different contexts. Moreover, applications such as web-based decision
support, e-participation and e-democracy are making algorithmic ‘solutions’ to the group
decision problem attractive, despite many results showing we know that such solutions are,
at best, rare and, at worst, illusory. In this paper I survey developments since my earlier paper
and note some unresolved issues. Then I turn to how expert judgement might be used within
web-based group decision support, as well as in e-participation and e-democracy contexts.
The latter points to a growing importance of the textbook problem and suggests that Cooke’s
principles for scientific reporting of expert judgement studies may need enhancing for such
studies to be used by a wider audience