Answer to the CDC: Validation Must Precede Promotion

Samuel Rufat (1, 2) , Eric Tate (3) , Christopher Emrich (4) , Federico Antolini (3)

1 IUF - Institut universitaire de France
2 CY - CY Cergy Paris Université
3 Department of Geography, University of Iowa
4 UCF - University of Central Florida [Orlando]

We would like to thank the CDC colleagues for their Commentary in what constitutes the first comment on a paper published in the Annals in decades. We view critique as a strength of scientific exploration. The Commentary concludes with as statement agreeing with the findings and conclusions of our paper: “we recognize CDC SVI may not identify the most vulnerable populations in all applications and has not done so in the Rufat et al. study (…) we agree with the authors.”

Mots clés: social vulnerability; validation; spatial regression; models; hazards

Domaines: Géographie

Samuel Rufat, Eric Tate, Christopher Emrich, Federico Antolini. Answer to the CDC: Validation Must Precede Promotion. Annals of the American Association of Geographers, 2020, 111 (4), ⟨10.1080/24694452.2020.1857221⟩. ⟨hal-03146337⟩