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Ricky Rylance writes in the Independent about the value of quantitive methods to social science students. “Mention quantitive methods to […]
2011 has been the year of the population survey. The UK saw its most detailed census to date. Understanding Society, […]
This post is by Richard Nielsen on the Social Science Statistics Blog, hosted by the Institute for Quantitative Science at Harvard University. Every […]
The statistical illiteracy of the population – including policy-makers – was the subject of a discussion at the British Library […]
With the election of Barack Obama as president of the United States, many prominent public figures declared that America had “entered a ‘post-racial’ era.” But as sociologists Eduardo Bonilla-Silva and David Dietrich argue, “racial oppression is still systematic in America.”
The University of Pennsylvania’s Annenberg Public Policy Center conducted a controlled experimental study of over 5300 smokers regarding reactions to tobacco warnings labels. Their […]
A new study of children diagnosed with autism in the US has found that socioeconomic inequalities in who is diagnosed […]
The General Social Survey is second only to the US Census in being the most frequently analyzed source of social […]
I’m a member of a university (the University of Southampton) which forces its budding social scientists through two courses in […]
David Canter describes being marooned in Narita Airport when the earthquake struck. Having studied people’s actions in major emergencies as […]
As a social scientist I find it interesting to seek out topics for study that no-one else seems to have […]
Reposted from Methodspace: a summary of the NatCen Informing Public Policy New Agendas for Social Research Conference (23-24 April 2009) […]
