As Alex Berezow wrote in his piece yesterday, psychology is not a science, and statistics in and of itself is not science either. Then again, lots of useful and worthwhile things are not science. So, ...

In collaboration with the Office of Research & Innovation, the Social Science Research Committee (SSRC) will offer three workshops on introduction to statistics via Zoom, as part of SSRC's research ...

The recent essay by Michael Jindra and Arthur Sakamoto (“When Ideology Drives Social Science,” The Chronicle Review, March 6), was remarkably naïve and ill-informed. Excellent and responsible ...

Is social science research trustworthy? The economist Noah Smith raises this question in a recent piece entitled “How many of our ‘facts’ about society health, and the economy are fake?” As he points ...

Daniel Liberto is a journalist with over 10 years of experience working with publications such as the Financial Times, The Independent, and Investors Chronicle. Erika Rasure is globally-recognized as ...

THE vice-chancellor of one of our modern universities has been heard to state on more than one occasion that he has failed to discover what is meant by social science. In a lesser man that might be ...

Statistics is the science of learning from data. The theoretical foundation of statistics lies in probability theory, which is applied to decision-making under uncertainty. Data science consists of ...

The Department of Applied Mathematics offers a Bachelor of Arts degree in statistics and data science through the College of Arts and Sciences. The BA degree is designed with an emphasis on inter- and ...

Ralph Reed says 'irrefutable' social science shows kids better off raised by straight couples On ABC’s Easter Sunday edition of This Week, host Martha Raddatz discussed the intersection of religion ...