Social, Behavioral Scientists Eligible to Apply for NSF S-STEM Grants
Solicitations are now being sought for the National Science Foundation’s Scholarships in Science, Technology, Engineering, and Mathematics program, and in an unheralded […]
Ricky Rylance writes in the Independent about the value of quantitive methods to social science students. “Mention quantitive methods to any social […]
2011 has been the year of the population survey. The UK saw its most detailed census to date. Understanding Society, a huge […]
This post is by Richard Nielsen on the Social Science Statistics Blog, hosted by the Institute for Quantitative Science at Harvard University. Every so often, […]
The statistical illiteracy of the population – including policy-makers – was the subject of a discussion at the British Library on 13 […]
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 findings reveal […]
A new study of children diagnosed with autism in the US has found that socioeconomic inequalities in who is diagnosed with autism […]
The General Social Survey is second only to the US Census in being the most frequently analyzed source of social science information […]