Sentences with phrase «science in a political setting»

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«It gives [the candidates] a chance to humanize themselves and put themselves in a more relaxed setting,» said John Greer, professor of political science at Vanderbilt University.

A social class is a set of subjectively defined concepts in the social sciences and political theory centered on models of social stratification in which «These upper class toffs don't care about those on the breadline» - We asked the people hurting most if the new Universal Credit rules would ACTUALLY

The superiority of random assignment for drawing conclusions about cause and effect in nonlaboratory settings is routinely recognized in both the philosophy of science literature and in methods texts in health, public health, agriculture, statistics, microeconomics, psychology, and those parts of political science and sociology that deal with improving the assessment of public opinion.

A 2002 political science graduate of Rhodes College in Memphis, Lundgren did not set out to become an educator.

The political agenda set back in the 1970s was to demonize CO2 using unproven, junk science and, knowing that we can not stop using carbon - based fuels, commandeer our energy while claiming to save the planet.

Apart from the fundamental scientific advances of the breakthrough papers, there is an hierarchy of classes of lesser papers, along the lines of those which — • Confirm or deny the main thrust of a breakthrough paper by arriving from other angles • Provide an alternative or improvement to the main findings of breakthrough papers • Contribute more observation to the breakthrough paper and discuss its relevance • Seek to set a complementary base for a breakthrough in a related aspect of science • Report the views of a clutch of authors about a topic they deem to have political importance • Ditto for educational importance • Write papers that are knowingly lacking good science to place authors in one camp or another • Lambast an author or authors for being on the «wrong» side of a polarised topic • Perform meta analysis Etc..

The most common pattern is that people's level of science knowledge, or of education, has either no significant effect or only a modest effect compared with political party, ideology and issue - concern in predicting their beliefs across this set.

To categorize think tanks as liberal or conservative, 19 experts (14 faculty members and 5 graduate students from U.S. political science departments) judged the political orientation of an initial set of 36 think tanks listed as liberal or conservative on Wikipedia's List of think tanks in the United States in October, 2009.1 Experts indicated whether or not they felt knowledgeable enough to judge each think tank, and if so, rated its political orientation (1 = mainly Liberal / Democrat; 5 = mainly Conservative / Republican).

You guys seem to operate with your own set of rules that are distinct from other branches of science (no doubt due to the messianic fervor of being deep in the political arena).

He enrolled at North Carolina Central University in Durham, where he set out to earn a degree in economics and political science.