From: Benjamin Mako Hill Date: Fri, 7 Sep 2012 14:28:07 +0000 (-0400) Subject: fix formatting X-Git-Url: https://projects.mako.cc/source/bmh-research_statement/commitdiff_plain/9a949f29fc3ce175d3e6f5e04baaf537ab948b50 fix formatting --- diff --git a/research_statement.tex b/research_statement.tex index 72688c8..78cb500 100644 --- a/research_statement.tex +++ b/research_statement.tex @@ -211,11 +211,11 @@ deference and gratitude. Although nearly all of my work has important implications for the design of socio-technical systems, I have structured much of my work -around the evaluation of technological design changes. In several papers, I -treat design changes as ``natural experiments'' that +around the evaluation of technological design changes. In several +papers, I treat design changes as ``natural experiments'' that exogenously change the ways that social structure is enacted in order -to both build causal understanding of social phenomena from field data and to tighten the -distance between theory and and design. +to both build causal understanding of social phenomena from field data +and to tighten the distance between theory and and design. For example, to evaluate the impact of status-based incentives and collaboration in Scratch, I use a regression discontinuity framework