Metascience Manquè - by Kevin Munger

In a total coincidence, today is the 5th anniversay of this blog *and* the 100th post! I obviously haven’t been hitting the platform-optimal once-a-week minimum but, as a compromise, I do at least spend way too much time writing these things.

My first post promised that this blog would be about three things

• social science methodology (and how it’s changing because of the internet), including my recent focus on meta-science, temporal validity and quantitative description

• political communication theory (and how it’s changing because of the internet),

• the practice of culture and politics (and how it’s changing because of the internet)

Politics, the internet and metascience — the three themes of the blog — have all changed quite a bit since then!

That first is mostly complaints about Twitter, a habit I still heartily endorse.

what is the ideal online platform for social scientists to collaborate, share knowledge and tell jokes? I’m confident it’s not Twitter; Twitter is a for-profit corporation with a goal that is not to design the ideal platform for social scientists. Further, Twitter is constantly changing, in terms of the userbase and the platform itself; even if it were ideal at one point, it won’t stay that way.