Sentences with phrase «good social scientist»

However, as any good social scientist will tell you, outliers often obscure trends rather than indicate them.

The Moral Sense is what Adam Smith would have written instead of The Theory of Moral Sentiments if he was as good a social scientist as James Q. Wilson.

I am not a scientist - Well a social scientist — lol - but really - I had a Geography major - took the courses in Physical Geography and climatology - blah blah

First a global «think tank» model with a humanist mission statement, underpinned by Business / Marketing Plan developed by the very best social scientists, marketers and advertising gurus on the planet.

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But some scientists think this ingrained social preference for tall husbands and fathers may not be doing us any good anymore.

Social scientists, psychiatrists, and conflict mediators around the globe have relied on this tool for years to help solve marital woes, foster better communication between psychologists and their patients, and even mediate international conflicts between warring parties.

How it should be used: A growth hacker — they're often marketers, engineers or product managers — is basically a social scientist, running experiments to figure out what techniques and strategies will best grow a business.

Effective programs — the kind found on the National Registry — are usually created by psychologists and other social scientists who are better at research than marketing their efforts.

As social scientist Arthur Brooks has documented, religious people give far more to all manner of do - gooding than do secular people.

The Black Church in the African American Experience by C. Eric Lincoln and Lawrence H. Mamiya Duke University Press, 519 pages, $ 47.50 When we cut through the many good reasons that lead social scientists to study religion, we find ourselves in the end confronting questions about politics.

One thing is clear: this research should be monitored by informed nonscientists as well as scientists for its theological, ethical, social and legal implications.

My own view of all of this, as a practicing social scientist interested in the relationship between religious faith and empirical science, is that the general perspective taken by Evans - Pritchard, Douglas, and the Turners is not only entirely reasonable but close to the best account we might give.

No one really knows why Indian patients did so well, but increasingly, psychiatric scientists are willing to attribute the better outcomes to social factors.

One social scientist indirectly concluded as much when he described Lutherans as «indistinct,» «hard to identify,» «unobtrusive,» as well as «on the fringe.»

Although, most Ph.D. candidates in the social sciences have well developed writing skills, which you do not), yet your post is peppered with terms used in ways no natural scientist would use them.

Other social scientists have resisted the exclusive focus on the economic process as well as the overly benign interpretation of its effects.

At the bishops» meeting, Philadelphia Archbishop Charles Chaput asked, given this research, what do most social scientists think about same - sex families and child well - being?

Nonetheless, for those wanting to explore their own religious beliefs (or non-belief) by reading an honest and skeptical affirmation of the Christian faith by one of the world's best thinkers and social scientists, this book recommends itself.

The world needs scientists who both do their job well and do it with social vision.

It is also the well - established case that natural scientists and people working at the edge of technological advances tend to be more religious than those in the humanities and social sciences.

Even the lonely task of the scientist is social, for the material on which he works as well as his personal life are products of the community.

Conferences bringing representatives of religious communions together with other concerned groups — foundations, think tanks, social scientists, ethicists — dot the landscapes of developed nations and occasionally others as well.

The social significance of Christian anti-Judaism in the United States has been well established by contemporary social scientists (see CBAS and WS).

In all these sources, as well as a sizable and growing group of religiously open scientists (including medical professionals and social scientists) who are often neither New Age / Eastern nor Christians, there is a particular, intense focus on learning about the nature of consciousness.

But the modern, and dominant, view of developmental scientists like Steinberg is that the degree to which parents can successfully parent their children is highly dependent on how well their social environment — education, policy, media, culture, the economy — align to support children's development.

Among the signatories are Dame Julie Mellor, former Chair of the Equal Opportunities Commission, as well as some of Britain's top social scientists in this field — Dr Ann Buchanan (Oxford University), Professor Michael Lamb (Cambridge University), Joan Hunt (Oxford University), Professor Judy Dunn (Institute of Psychiatry), Professor Brid Featherstone (Bradford University), Dr Christine Skinner (York University).

* Day 1 Monday, February 22, 2016 4:00 PM -5:00 PM Registration & Networking 5:00 PM — 6:00 PM Welcome Reception & Opening Remarks Kevin de Leon, President pro Tem, California State Senate Debra McMannis, Director of Early Education & Support Division, California Department of Education (invited) Karen Stapf Walters, Executive Director, California State Board of Education (invited) 6:00 PM — 7:00 PM Keynote Address & Dinner Dr. Patricia K. Kuhl, Co-Director, Institute for Learning & Brain Sciences * Day 2 Tuesday February 23, 2016 8:00 AM — 9:00 AM Registration, Continental Breakfast, & Networking 9:00 AM — 9:15 AM Opening Remarks John Kim, Executive Director, Advancement Project Camille Maben, Executive Director, First 5 California Tom Torlakson, State Superintendent of Public Instruction, California Department of Education 9:15 AM — 10:00 AM Morning Keynote David B. Grusky, Executive Director, Stanford's Center on Poverty & Inequality 10:00 AM — 11:00 AM Educating California's Young Children: The Recent Developments in Transitional Kindergarten & Expanded Transitional Kindergarten (Panel Discussion) Deborah Kong, Executive Director, Early Edge California Heather Quick, Principal Research Scientist, American Institutes for Research Dean Tagawa, Administrator for Early Education, Los Angeles Unified School District Moderator: Erin Gabel, Deputy Director, First 5 California (Invited) 11:00 AM — 12:00 PM «Political Will & Prioritizing ECE» (Panel Discussion) Eric Heins, President, California Teachers Association Senator Hannah - Beth Jackson, Chair of the Women's Legislative Committee, California State Senate David Kirp, James D. Marver Professor of Public Policy, University of California, Berkeley Assemblyman Kevin McCarty, Chairman of Subcommittee No. 2 of Education Finance, California State Assembly Moderator: Kim Pattillo Brownson, Managing Director, Policy & Advocacy, Advancement Project 12:00 PM — 12:45 PM Lunch 12:45 PM — 1:45 PM Lunch Keynote - «How Children Succeed: Grit, Curiosity, and the Hidden Power of Character» Paul Tough, New York Times Magazine Writer, Author 1:45 PM — 1:55 PM Break 2:00 PM — 3:05 PM Elevating ECE Through Meaningful Community Partnerships (Panel Discussion) Sandra Guiterrez, National Director, Abriendo Purtas / Opening Doors Mary Ignatius, Statewide Organize of Parent Voices, California Child Care Resource & Referral Network Jacquelyn McCroskey, John Mile Professor of Child Welfare, University of Southern California School of Social Work Jolene Smith, Chief Executive Officer, First 5 Santa Clara County Moderator: Rafael González, Director of Best Start, First 5 LA 3:05 PM — 3:20 PM Closing Remarks Camille Maben, Executive Director, First 5 California * Agenda Subject to Change

In addition to helping parents make the best and most appropriate decision for themselves, the information provided here should also be of use to educators, health professionals, public health officials, the media, sleep researchers, child protective services, coroners, forensic pathologists, anthropologists, psychiatrists, psychologists and other social scientists, as well as researchers in a variety the developmental fields including human biology.

In a recent book by Dr. Peter Cook (Mothering Denied) describes better than most others the difficulties that Dr. Jay Belsky has had convincing his fellow scientists that social ideology is passing for, if not dictating, scientific interpretations of studies on this issue (as is true for the bedsharing debate), in favor of dismissing the serious concerns and negative developmental correlates of infants and children being placed for long hours, early in their lives, in daycare centers.

Titled «The Ark and Beyond: The Evolution of Zoo and Aquarium Conservation,» the book — published in March 2018 — is written by a collection of authors from zoos and aquariums, including Shedd Aquarium's Vice President of Conservation Research Dr. Chuck Knapp, as well as an impressive roster of university - based historians, biologists, ethicists and social scientists.

With events from some of the country's leading social scientists, the Festival celebrates the very best of British social science research and how it influences our social, economic and political lives - both now and in the future.

I am pleased to be working with the Research Grants Council of Hong Kong to foster collaborations between social scientists which enable the best researchers to work together regardless of international borders.»

Brain research is helping scientists better understand the neural mechanisms underlying language processing in infants and young children, as well as the social interactions necessary for honing those skills.

Our definition of «scientist» was a broad one, including social scientists, health professionals and engineers, as well as natural and physical scientists.

My job now consists of mediating with developers to build a better product for scientists, hosting workshops and demos, attending conferences and doing social media marketing.

Partnerships: Scientists Working With Human Rights Organizations Examples of collaborations between scientists from a variety of disciplines and human rights practitioners that cover economic, social, and cultural rights as well as civil and politicScientists Working With Human Rights Organizations Examples of collaborations between scientists from a variety of disciplines and human rights practitioners that cover economic, social, and cultural rights as well as civil and politicscientists from a variety of disciplines and human rights practitioners that cover economic, social, and cultural rights as well as civil and political rights.

As a scientist, how can you most effectively use social media to share your research and engage the public, and which platform is best suited for your goals?

They can, and they do — and they have data, compellingly compiled in a massive 832 - page tome by Harvard University social scientist Steven Pinker entitled The Better Angels of Our Nature: Why Violence Has Declined (Viking, 2011).

But the former revolutionary turned scientist recently came to a surprising conclusion about how best to bring back grasslands and in the process help address poverty and social breakdown in some of the poorest corners of the planet.

The project also will examine disaster preparedness, bringing in social scientists to assess how well communities around Kīlauea and Long Valley are prepared today and to identify better ways of communicating information on possible hazards to the public.

For a good part of the 19th and 20th centuries, economists and social scientists assumed this was true too.

Bowers worked with the US Central Command's human terrain analysis branch, which is separate from the army's Human Terrain System (HTS), a better known program that embeds social scientists within the military.

Many social animals start to feel itchy after watching one of their fellows scratch, and scientists now have a better understanding of why an itch can spread through a group.

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Research by both social science management types and computer science network scientists suggests that networks with a high degree of clustering, or connectedness, are a force for good.

Social scientist Roly Russell, of the Sandhill Institute in British Columbia, talked with Scientific American's Mark Fischetti at the annual meeting of the American Association for the Advancement of Science about potentially better measures than GDP of a nation's well - being

In 1975, O'Neill spearheaded a ten - week - long study at NASA Ames Research Center in Mountain View, California, working with engineers, social scientists, and other researchers, as well as architects, to see whether such structures were feasible.

The other view of science fiction, figureheaded in retrospect by one Herbert George Wells — «H. G.» to pretty much everyone — was that actual science was best left to actual scientists and science - themed novelists should feel free to make stuff up if it helped uncover the social and philosophical pitfalls in humanity's road ahead.

«This is a good example of a paper that suggests a clear correspondence between how people behave in real life and virtual environments,» says social scientist James Ivory, who studies social and psychological aspects of people online at Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University in Blacksburg.

The goal was to find out just how replicable social scientists think the work in their field is, and whether it is better — or worse — than it was 10 years ago.