Against optimism about social science

Statistical Modeling, Causal Inference, and Social Science 2013-05-06

Summary:

Social science research has been getting pretty bad press recently, what with the Excel buccaneers who didn’t know how to handle data with different numbers of observations per country, and the psychologist who published dozens of papers based on fabricated data, and the Evilicious guy who wouldn’t let people review his data tapes, etc etc. [...]

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http://andrewgelman.com/2013/05/06/against-optimism-about-social-science/

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uncategorized sociology economics decision theory

Authors:

Andrew

Date tagged:

05/06/2013, 09:40

Date published:

05/06/2013, 09:00