The evidence of this push showed in the increase of dollars dedicated for a number of program evaluations. Some of the offices that either created or expanded their evaluation staff were the General Accounting Office, the Congressional Budget Office and the House and Senate Budget Committees. Even in the world of academics the push for evaluation research was strong. It was believed that with so many individuals advocating evaluation research there would be a combination of results that would arise, both positive and negative. Evaluators could use the information gathered to provide facts about a given subject and then in turn alter these results to give them the payoffs that they wanted.
Evaluators can also use their results to design a new program or redesign an ineffective one.
In many cases the mood and strong feelings of the community dictate the interest of the policymakers. The rise of importance of evaluation research showed in the number of evaluation studies, books and articles published on the subject, in addition to the number of seminars conducted. Aside from the rise of importance there were very few cases where the evaluation results did not impact the decisions of the policymakers. The role of evaluation in public policy with accurate quality information is an important factor when making policy. Nachmias believes that in many cases policymakers are better off ignoring the results of the evaluation research altogether.