Modelling Child Development: attempting the impossible to better understand the possible

STATUS: Completed
PROJECT LEADER:Desmond, CJ (Dr Chris)
OTHER TEAM MEMBERS: Reddy, D (Ms Deshanie), Ngcobo, AS (Dr Sibongile)
DEPARTMENT RESPONSIBLE: ()

Abstract

Building models of child development to accurately predict what child outcomes will be given a particular context and child is impossible. This however does not mean we should not build models. Efforts to build as realistic as possible models can be highly informative, and provide a framework within which data can be organized. Models force us to re-examine data in particularly rigorous ways in order to determine what we can and cannot say about interventions and contexts and associated risks and outcomes.

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