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since 1961, he has been both director and president of its Board of Trust-
ees. At the National Research Council, he has chaired the Committee on
National Statistics, the panel to advise the Census Bureau on alternative
methods for conducting the census in the year 2000, the panel to review
the National Assessment of Educational Progress, and the panel to assess
the 2000 census. Bradburn has a Ph.D. in social psychology from Harvard
University.

Kathleen A. Cagney is associate professor in the Departments of Health
Studies, Sociology, and Comparative Human Development at the University
of Chicago. Her work examines social inequality and its relationship to
health, with a focus on neighborhood, race, and aging and the life course.
She is principal investigator of a study that explores neighborhood social
context and its role in the health and well-being of older Chicagoans. She is
director of the Population Research Center, codirector of the Center on the
Demography and Economics of Aging, and a senior fellow at the National
Opinion Research Center. She has a Ph.D. from Johns Hopkins University
and an M.P.P. from the University of Chicago.

Nancy D. Cartwright is professor of philosophy in the Department of Phi-
losophy, Logic and Scientific Method in the London School of Economics
and Political Science; she is also professor of philosophy at the University
of California, San Diego. Her principal interests are the philosophy and
history of science (especially physics and economics), causal inference, and
evidence and objectivity in science and policy. She is currently president of
the Philosophy of Science Association and past president of the American
Philosophical Association, Pacific Division. Cartwright has a Ph.D. in phi-
losophy from the University of Illinois, Chicago.

Harris Cooper is professor of psychology and chair of the Department
of Psychology and Neuroscience at Duke University. His work involves
research syntheses and meta-analysis in varied fields, such as personality
and social psychology, developmental psychology, marketing, and devel-
opmental medicine and child neurology, and the application of social and
developmental psychology to education policy issues. He is past editor of
the Psychological Bulletin and currently serves as the chief editorial adviser
for the journals program of the American Psychological Association. He has
a Ph.D. in social psychology from the University of Connecticut.

Dennis Fryback is professor emeritus in population health sciences and in
industrial and systems engineering at the University of Wisconsin, Madison.
He has specialized in methodological issues underpinning medical decision
making, cost-effectiveness analysis of health care interventions, and health

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