Further Thoughts on Dialectical Inquiry: A Rejoinder to Mitroff and Mason
回应米特罗夫和梅森关于政策领域不可实验的观点，坚持控制实验在政策与规划中的必要性，并指出拒绝不利证据可能反映对实验证据的普遍排斥。
Mitroff and Mason suggest that the policy and planning field is largely metaphysical and beyond the scope of traditional scientific experimentation. From this premise, they argue that the dialectical approach was not properly operationalized in controlled experiments. I maintain that controlled experimentation is needed in policy and planning and that failure to accept unfavorable evidence regarding dialectical inquiry may reflect a general desire to dismiss experimental evidence about planning variables.