From 9a949f29fc3ce175d3e6f5e04baaf537ab948b50 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Benjamin Mako Hill Date: Fri, 7 Sep 2012 10:28:07 -0400 Subject: [PATCH 1/1] fix formatting --- research_statement.tex | 8 ++++---- 1 file changed, 4 insertions(+), 4 deletions(-) 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 -- 2.39.5