ABSTRACT
My wish is for ready adoption of methodological advances without fear of reviewer resistance or worry over the complexity of it all. In my article, I discuss the inherent problems and impediments to ready adoption and I offer a number of concrete suggestions to mitigate the current state of practice. My article is grounded on the idea that the intricacy of modern methods and their corresponding questions must be embraced if policy and practice are to be truly served. Inadequate findings derived from status-quo methods propagate mis-information and beget adoption of bad policy and practice—thereby undermining our obligations as stewards of social justice.
