"There are not a lot of substantial findings that allow us to make policy conclusions".
Her book avoids policy conclusions, and is full of thoughtful asides.
Although the U.S. and Israel agreed on the fundamental facts and risks, they had reached opposing policy conclusions.
The organizations emphasize that while their views align with Exxon's, the company's money does not influence their policy conclusions.
Finally, James shares with many of the left-leaning happiness researchers a reluctance to acknowledge that the policy conclusions of many of their ideas are profoundly conservative.
But asked for specific policy conclusions of his research, he responded, "If I had a simple answer, I would have been spreading it around the world".
I can confirm that the situation in Afghanistan is complex, and defies any attempt to graft it onto easy-to-discern lessons or policy conclusions.
Second, and more important, Wheeler draws exactly the wrong policy conclusions from his analysis of how the government treated other financial institutions.
I disagreed with some of his policy conclusions but had to respect his knowledge of the weaknesses and foibles of his foreign interlocutors and his grasp of the intricacies of high-level wheeling and dealing.
Bothered by what it describes as the report's exaggerated claims, the company, Mathematica Policy Research of Princeton, N.J., has now taken the unusual step of issuing a statement that cautions against leaping to any policy conclusions.
But these figures, and their policy conclusions, need to be treated with caution – not least because they may lead to money being invested in a technological fix when the answers are more complex and human.
