Cutting NSF Is Like Liquidating Your Finest Investment
Look closely at your mobile phone or tablet. Touch-screen technology, speech recognition, digital sound recording and the internet were all developed using […]
September 10, 2015
Fairer Funding in Social Sciences Masks Gender Imbalance
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September 10, 2015
Honoring High Achievements in ‘Hypsographic Demography’
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Federal ‘Common Rule’ on Human Study Ethics Changing
Four years in the making, a proposed version of the federal ‘Common Rule’ for research on human subjects includes a full suite of social and behavioral science-influenced directives that past versions of the rule lacked.
Perceived Gaps in Equity Affect Decisions More Than Absolute Gaps
The absolute difference between what someone else is getting compared to what you get matters less than how feel about any disparity, according to a review of ‘relative deprivation’ research in the journal ‘Policy Insights from the Brain and Behavioral Sciences.’
Working for a Living – Jobs, Employment, Labor, Economics
Today is the day in the US when we give a shout-out to all those who labor. The first Labor Day celebration in […]
Round-up of Social Science Research
The following articles are drawn from SAGE Insight, which spotlights research published in SAGE’s more than 800 journals. The articles linked below are […]
Hidden Dangers
David Canter considers the fatal consequences of keeping medical problems secret
When Designing Multiple Channels, Mirror Attributes Matter
[We’re pleased to welcome Maik Hammerschmidt of the University of Göttingen in Germany. Dr. Hammerschmidt recently published an article in the OnlineFirst section of […]
Ranking African Universities Fraught and Futile
The director of directs the International Network for Higher Education in Africa argues that a nascent effort to rank the continent’s institutions of higher education ‘seems to me to be doomed from the start.’
Exploring the Nexus of Big Data and Official Statistics
While it might seem natural for so-called Big Data to supplement, improve or replace existing datasets and statistics, or provide entirely new statistical outputs for government agencies, some careful footwork is needed before heading too far down that path, argues Rob Kitchin.
