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 […]
Society, the authors, find, suppresses women’s entrepreneurship just by the way it talks about entrepreneurs.
We know that one outlier has the potential to influence the size and direction of effects, the significance of hypothesized relationships, and significantly alter the results of published works, but what happens when there are dozens of outliers in a sample?
in a ‘Why Social Science’ post from 2020, the new leader of the National Science Foundation’s director for social and behavioral science discusses an NSF program to get more research money to minority-serving institutions.
The authors write that their research demonstrates followership as the often-missing piece in the leadership puzzle.
In this post, co-authors Fabian Reck and Alexander Fliaster, both at the University of Bamberg, reflect on their research paper, “Far-Reaching or […]
Who drives digital change – the people of the technology? Katharina Gilli explains how her co-authors worked to address that question.
Scientific evidence, write Jennifer Carlson and Rina James. is shaped by the broader political and cultural contexts in which gun policy is debated.
How virtual reality platforms respond, and how they protect users and their data, that will ensure the metaverse is a force for good, not the opening of a door to a malevolent underworld.