Exploring and exploiting quality of life complexity: epistemological, methodological and statistical issues
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| Exploring and exploiting quality of life complexity: epistemological, methodological and statistical issues | |
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| Date | 09/09/2011 |
| City | Florence |
| Country | Italy |
| Summary | Summary::It aims at urging scholars from different scientific fields to discuss the proposed topic. |
Exploring and exploiting quality of life complexity: epistemological, methodological and statistical issues - Florence (Italy), September 9-10 2011 (more information: www.aiquav.it)
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Classical approaches to evaluation look at complexity as an obstacle to measuring quality of life in effective and practical ways. They draw upon aggregative and compensative tools (e.g., Composite indicators) in order to remove multidimensionality and nuances, in favour of oversimplified measures and representations of quality of life. But are those measures and representations faithful and useful ones? Can they be trusted for policy and decision-making purposes? Or complexity, multidimensionality and nuances are what really matters and should be taken into account in the evaluation and representation process? The workshop is aimed at gathering social scientists, economists and statisticians to take stock of the situation and discuss issues and possible solutions in exploring and exploiting quality of life complexity.
