Sentences with phrase «other social scientists»

In fact there are many other social scientists at NCAR and it is not fair to say that social science has been «removed».

Like other social scientists who use survey data, we trusted Gallup poll results because we knew they employed sound sampling methods.

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This situation has been explored more recently by other social scientists, who have found that it can lead to social norms under which «nerds» are harassed and studious students of color are accused by their peers of «acting white» (see ««Acting White,»» features, Winter 2006).

I have also worked closely with other social scientists at NCAR [see for instance a book I put together for the Global Change Instruction Program: Effects of Changing Climate on Weather and Human Activities].

Levitt has worked tirelessly to build development studies as a multi-disciplinary field of scholarly endeavour, in which development economics plays an essential role but must be complemented by essential contributions from other social scientists and historians.

In a separate activity, participants played the dictator game, which economists and other social scientists often use to study decision - making.

Yet if demographers and other social scientists want to fully understand how family dynamics affect populations, they need to consider the months before birth as well.

Kahan and other social scientists previously have shown that information based on scientific evidence can actually intensify — rather than moderate — political polarization on contentious topics such as gun control, climate change, fracking, or the safety of certain vaccines.

Dr. Sterman and other social scientists assessing climate science and climate policy say that a vital task for President Obama and his climate - energy team (and for scientists and the media), even as they weigh legislation and a treaty and technology, is to educate the public on the bathtub effect.

But Makse and many other social scientists are convinced that it eventually will — if only they can figure out how to translate terabytes of data into human intentions.

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.

The anthropologists and other social scientists in his group, he says, are attuned to the social context for decision - making — the local political context and mental health, to cite two examples — which wouldn't be on a hydrologist's radar.

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

Oh yes, and other social scientists have arrived at conclusions compatible with those of Regnerus.

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.

So Makse and many other social scientists are asking: Could online data enhance polling as a forecasting tool, or even replace it?

The reality is that elected officials mostly care about issues that have political salience, as Brulle and other social scientists have long pointed out — meaning issues that fit in the small basket of worries that voters carry with them day to day (the economy, the health and welfare of their families, getting supper ready).

Environmental psychologists, behavioral economists and other social scientists have all investigated this question, and come up with a variety of answers.

Over the past several decades, communication researchers and other social scientists have developed a set of quantitative content analysis procedures as a methodological tool for validly and reliably measuring trends and portrayals in media coverage.

It is no surprise that environmental economists and other social scientists with an interest in renewable energy also believe that their research can change the world (and bring in a few research grants and raise their academic profiles at the same time).

Anthropologists and other social scientists have distinguished between voluntary immigrants such as Hispanics and involuntary immigrants such as African - Americans (Ogbu & Simons, 1998; Garcia Coll et al., 1996).