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 […]
John List on Economic Field Experiments
Behavioral economist John List talks about his work on field experiments and how research done in the natural world can lead to insights that otherwise might be hard to tease out in a lab.
America’s DataHub Consortium: Seeing — and Understanding — the Entire Elephant
We live in the information age. So where are all the answers? A new data science consortium led by NSF’s National Center for Science and Engineering Statistics wants to reveal the answers and evidence hidden in a sea of federally compartmentalized data.
Understanding the ‘Undercover Autism’ of Many Women and Girls
[Ed. – April 2, 2022 is World Autism Awareness Day.] Being autistic, but not diagnosed, can lead to a lifetime of struggles […]
Comparing COVID Deaths and Political Persuasion in the US
The Pew Research Center writes that “as the relationship between population density and coronavirus death rates has changed over the course of the pandemic, so too has the relationship between counties’ voting patterns and their death rates from COVID-19.”
‘Old Bones in Boxes’: Lessons On Race and Physical Anthropology
The discipline of physical anthropology has a dark, often fraught past. It was misused to justify slavery and even genocide. In this […]
Spring in DC Not Really Cherry Blossom Season; It’s Budget Season
What does this year’s U.S. Executive Branch budget suggest for key agencies that provide social and behavioral science funding?
What Can Game Theory Tell Us About Ukraine War Negotiations?
Game theory is the formal study of strategic choices between two sides. It’s useful to decision makers because it can illustrate the range of options open to combatants within a given crisis, and also map the likely “wins and losses” strategically decided upon by the parties involved. The challenge is applying a hypothetical spectrum to the range of passive and aggressive options, and their consequences in Ukraine today.
NIST Report: There’s More to AI Bias Than Biased Data
According to NIST’s Reva Schwartz, bias manifests itself not only in artificial intelligence algorithms and the data used to train them, but also in the societal context in which AI systems are used.
