Rachel Donnelly, Andrew Springer
Parental social support, ethnicity, and energy balance-related behaviors in ethnically diverse, low-income, urban elementary schoolchildren
Journal of nutrition education and behavior
weighing complex sets evidence ie multiple disciplines often divergent implications increasingly central properly informed decisionmaking determining weight evidence lies essential making maximal use available evidence figuring make evidence weighing evidence sense requires approach handle wide range evidential sources completeness combine evidence rigor way experts assess critique transparency democratic context need weightofevidence analysis also places additional constraints process including communicability process general public need approach used across broad range contexts scope timeliness process practicality compare qualitative quantitative approaches respect traditional epistemic criteria criteria arise democratic context argue qualitative explanatory approach best meet criteria elucidate utilize approaches surprising approach argue one closely tracks general scientific reasoning