Social Sciences

3 entries in this category

• Clinton Has 85 Percent Chance of Winning
  Statistical models from social science accurately predict election outcomes with high probability.
  A significant portion of experts think this assumption was false 13 sources
• Lab Studies Predict Real Behavior
  Controlled lab experiments in social psychology reliably demonstrate effects that occur and matter in the real world.
  A small but growing and influential group of experts think this was false 12 sources
• Classical Standard Errors Accurately Measure Uncertainty
  Classical standard errors provide reliable measures of uncertainty in regression coefficients because data noise is evenly distributed across observations.
  A small but growing and influential group of experts think this was false 5 sources