Some Frontiers in Social Science

The fundamental challenge in the social sciences is moving from complicated correlations to useful prediction. Progress usually reflects an interplay between theory, data, and tools. Six areas of innovation, principally data and tools, are now pushing at the frontiers of these sciences: longitudinal...

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Published inScience (American Association for the Advancement of Science) Vol. 312; no. 5782; pp. 1898 - 1900
Main Authors Butz, William P., Torrey, Barbara Boyle
Format Journal Article
LanguageEnglish
Published United States American Association for the Advancement of Science 30.06.2006
The American Association for the Advancement of Science
Subjects
Animals
Applied statistics
Behavior, Animal
Biological Evolution
Correlation analysis
Data masking
Economic costs
Economic surveys
Experimentation
Game theory
Genomics
Geography
Health Status
Human behavior
Humans
Innovations
Interdisciplinary Communication
Internationality
Internet
Longitudinal Studies
Nervous System Physiological Phenomena
Neurosciences
Perspectives
Predictions
Psychology, Social
Social Behavior
Social sciences
Social Sciences - methods
Social surveys
Statistics as Topic
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Summary:The fundamental challenge in the social sciences is moving from complicated correlations to useful prediction. Progress usually reflects an interplay between theory, data, and tools. Six areas of innovation, principally data and tools, are now pushing at the frontiers of these sciences: longitudinal data, laboratory experimentation, improved statistical methods, geographic information tools, biosocial science, and international replication. These innovations are gaining power as they cross disciplinary boundaries, helping to attribute causality to observed relationships, to understand their nature, and thereby to improve the accuracy and usefulness of predictions.
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ISSN:0036-8075
1095-9203
DOI:10.1126/science.1130121