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From page 1... ... analysts apply insights from the social and behavioral sciences on state-of-the-art approaches to analyze public attitudes in non Western populations. Sponsored by the IC, the National Academies' Board on Behavioral, Cognitive, and Sensory Sciences hosted a 2-day hybrid workshop on March 8–9, 2022, to present the Analytic Framework and to demonstrate its application across a series of hypothetical scenarios that might arise for an intelligence analyst tasked with summarizing public attitudes to inform a policy decision (see Box I-1 for the workshop's Statement of Task and Appendix A for the workshop agenda) Read the entire page →
From page 2... ... OPENING REMARKS Charles Lau (co-lead expert contributor for the Analytic Framework and director of the International Survey Research Program at RTI International) described the work of intelligence analysts as particularly challenging: they are expected to evaluate disparate sources of information that are rarely designed to address the question at hand and that could be of varying levels of quality, and to provide recommendations to policy makers in extremely brief time frames. Read the entire page →
From page 3... ... This proceedings document has been prepared by the workshop rapporteur as a factual summary of what occurred at the workshop. The workshop planning committee's role was limited to organizing and convening the workshop (see Appendix B for biographical sketches of the planning committee members, expert contributors, authors, and other workshop participants) Read the entire page →

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... analysts apply insights from the social and behavioral sciences on state-of-the-art approaches to analyze public attitudes in non Western populations. Sponsored by the IC, the National Academies' Board on Behavioral, Cognitive, and Sensory Sciences hosted a 2-day hybrid workshop on March 8–9, 2022, to present the Analytic Framework and to demonstrate its application across a series of hypothetical scenarios that might arise for an intelligence analyst tasked with summarizing public attitudes to inform a policy decision (see Box I-1 for the workshop's Statement of Task and Appendix A for the workshop agenda)

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... OPENING REMARKS Charles Lau (co-lead expert contributor for the Analytic Framework and director of the International Survey Research Program at RTI International) described the work of intelligence analysts as particularly challenging: they are expected to evaluate disparate sources of information that are rarely designed to address the question at hand and that could be of varying levels of quality, and to provide recommendations to policy makers in extremely brief time frames.

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... This proceedings document has been prepared by the workshop rapporteur as a factual summary of what occurred at the workshop. The workshop planning committee's role was limited to organizing and convening the workshop (see Appendix B for biographical sketches of the planning committee members, expert contributors, authors, and other workshop participants)

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Introduction
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