Organizations cannot neutrally evaluate their own practices

Evidence

Another caveat: individual institutions and agencies sometimes analyze their own practices, and occasionally compare their own with similar institutions’ practices. But these analyses are seldom made public, and by definition are not conducted by neutral evaluators. Policy analysts have known for decades that it is virtually impossible for an organization to evaluate its own practices in ways that are uncontaminated by internal politics or by the goals of the evaluators, no matter how hard they try. — David Theo Goldberg, John Solomos, A Companion to Racial and Ethnic Studies, 2027

Categorization

• XREF: Connects to the general problem of self-assessment bias in institutions, parallel to the reviewer bias arguments in evidence-based policy literature. — connects to: Advisory agencies avoid becoming effective power by refusing to measure their own success. — Henry M. Hart, Jr. and Albert M. Sacks, The Legal Process: Basic Problems in…, 45
• corroborated: 2 independent passages support this claim — David Theo Goldberg, John Solomos, A Companion to Racial and Ethnic Studies, 2027