Now that I have a son, this self-explanatory sports lesson has come in handy.
Although the results are not narrowly generalizable and do not necessarily represent the situation of the Mitanin Programme as a whole, the explanatory framework may provide general lessons for programmes in similar contexts.
The proper lesson is that explanatory exclusion arguments can be used to argue either against the parts or against the wholes.
This is illustrated in Figure 2, an explanatory framework for analytical generalization: raising general lessons for programmes in similar contexts.
Both predictor variables made significant unique contributions to the model's explanatory power that were almost identical in magnitude (early lessons: sr2 = .035, first instrument: sr2 = .033, ps<.01).
Some progress has been made towards extracting philosophical lessons from the empirical work indicating that attention has an explanatory role to play here (see, for several examples,the papers collected in Eilan, et al. 2005, Seemann 2011).
This is an inherent problem with policy analyses, events can be explained but the lessons learned may not be applicable to other contexts, nor able to present explanatory patterns.
For instance, the plurality of explanatory causes to be chosen from or integrated in biology or physics has been defended as lesson in pluralism (Sober 1999).
It is argued that the concept has qualitative explanatory powers and can support military decision-making regarding technology in forecasts, defense planning, development, utilization and the lessons learned process.
When the two-way interaction term was added to the model, it significantly improved explanatory power by 2%, Finc 1, 193) = 4.31, p<.05. Figure 2 illustrates overall performance as a function of early lessons and first instrument.
