CHAPTER 9

Valuation

“We inhabit a world that is always subjective and shaped by our interactions with it. Our world is impossible to pin down, constantly changing and infinitely more interesting than we ever imagined.”

Margaret Wheatley, Leadership and the New Science

THIS CHAPTER COVERS THE MAJOR IMPACT that the shifting paradigm, particularly the new sciences and social constructionism, have on our concepts and practice of evaluation. It describes AI as an approach to evaluating AI interventions as well as an approach to evaluating any process or situation.

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