Over the past two centuries, economists, policy makers, and researchers have aspired to “harden” social science. A lot of progress has been made: using randomized, controlled experiments; making ...
On July 2nd, 10–12 EST, as part of the Networks 2021 conference, a joint Sunbelt and NetSci conference, Nature editors Mary Elizabeth Sutherland and Federico Levi hosted a round table on Computational ...
Is social science research trustworthy? The economist Noah Smith raises this question in a recent piece entitled “How many of our ‘facts’ about society health, and the economy are fake?” As he points ...
Manuel A. Yepes ’24, a Crimson Editorial editor, is a Social Studies concentrator in Cabot House. The phrase “Social Studies” means many things to many people. For some, it evokes images of fourth ...
Have you ever wondered about the world around you? Like, why the sky is blue, or why people act the way they do? There are two big ways we try to understand these things: through physical science and ...
As with most disasters, when the history of the COVID pandemic is written, there will be a fair amount of finger-pointing involved. Much more could have been done to mitigate the coronavirus impact in ...