Evidence in public policy

What counts as good evidence in policymaking? Here’s one rubric, from Nature’s journal of Behavioural and Social Sciences in summer 2020:

The problem with a rubric like this is it seems it would score only one star on its own measure; we need better evidence about evidence. But still useful in my opinion.

Update: More on this topic from the Urban Institute.

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