[Stoves] Advocacy action: ask the GACC to stop promoting the WBT

Xavier Brandao xvr.brandao at gmail.com
Sun Jan 22 15:03:07 CST 2017


Dear Frank,
> What makes a test method good or bad is only how the results are 
> interpreted and used. 
The results WILL be interpreted and used. There's no way around that. I 
test something because I want results. I want results because it allows 
me to take a decision, on which depends time, money, and people. 
Humanitarian agencies, development agencies, companies and NGOs have 
been testing stoves and disseminating them for decades. This is not 
gonna change in the future.
If the results are irrelevant, it doesn't matter how they are 
interpreted, and used. The results are useless. By pure chance, the 
results may be correct and you may have developed a stove that is 
improved. It's like playing Russian roulette.

What makes a test method bad is if the validity of its results is highly 
uncertain. It is the case for the WBT.

Best regards,

Xavier





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