Could Distributed Peer Review Better Decide Grant Funding?
The landscape of academic grant funding is notoriously competitive and plagued by lengthy, bureaucratic processes, exacerbated by difficulties in finding willing reviewers. Distributed […]
We Must Talk About Polling: A Quick Q&A with W. Joseph Campbell
W. Joseph Campbell is an authority on the history of presidential polling, and in that story, as well as his recent book, “Lost in a Gallup: Polling Failure in Presidential Elections,” he details just how polls and pollsters – and those who put their faith in them – have misread public opinion when it comes to elections.
DBASSE Event Focused on Social Science Responses to COVID’s Challenges
An online seminar hosted by the NAS’ Division of Behavioral and Social Sciences and Education featured a series of presentations on what can we do to lessen, reverse and even thrive in the face of changes wrought by the pandemic.
Stale to Stellar: The Truth Behind Creating an Engaging Webinar
What makes a webinar presentation feel stale? You probably know ’em when you experience ’em. But how do you escape that trap in your own presentation, Echo Rivera is here to help …
Will the 2020 Census Be the Last of Its Kind?
Could the 2020 iteration of the United States Census, the constitutionally mandated count of everyone present in the nation, be the last of its kind?
Here Are the Blocks You Need to Tell Your Impact Story
At a loss for how to demonstrate impact? Laura Meagher and David Edwards outline a dynamic understanding of impact evaluation comprised of ‘building blocks’. These building blocks are five types of impacts; five broad categories of stakeholders; and eight causal factors, along with a set of over-arching reflective questions.
Social Science, STEM and Career Skills: Not ‘Either/Or’ But ‘Both/And’
As Lina Ashour has recently written, SAGE Publishing has helped make possible a report by the UK’s Campaign for Social Science on […]
Will We See A More Private, But Less Useful, Census?
Census data can be pretty sensitive – it’s not just how many people live in a neighborhood, a town, a state or […]
Some Americans Don’t Trust the Census
The 2020 census is fraught with uncertainty for a variety of reasons, including a lack of money, a growing distrust in government and the months of debate over the now-dropped citizenship question – which the Census Bureau itself called a major barrier to participation.
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