Saturday, July 20, 2013
Let’s Shake Up the Social Sciences
Given that I'm a student in the first-ever Department of Computational Social Science, I strongly agree with Nicholas Christakis in his New York Times article "Let’s Shake Up the Social Sciences". I especially like the points he makes regarding teaching social science students to do experiments early in their education process.
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Here's a nice blog post by a fellow PhD student on the constraints of the form (800 word essay) and how it forces the author to leave out much of the nuance and context.
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