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Regarding how to choose evaluation models, I wonder why some evaluators prefer the Black Box model. It seems too simple, doesn’t it?

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Jasper Wong
5 May 2023
Regarding how to choose evaluation models, I wonder why some evaluators prefer the Black Box model. It seems too simple, doesn’t it?

Regarding how to choose evaluation models, I wonder why some evaluators prefer the Black Box model. It seems too simple, doesn’t it?

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Wendy
5 May 2023

Welcome.

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Jasper Wong
5 May 2023

Thanks for your explanation.

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Wendy
5 May 2023

That's true. The Black Box model is increasingly seen as too simplistic and inadequate to provide necessary insight into important elements such as mechanisms, but its simplicity is also attractive to some stakeholders for conducting the evaluation more quickly and less expensively.

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