Sentences with phrase «social science evidence which»

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There is no area in social science in which the evidence stacks up so completely on one side: marriage and traditional family life are associated with good outcomes in terms of health, wealth, and other indicators of well - being.

The «soft» social sciences, which includes spirituality as well as psychology and sociology, rely on the statistical evidence that has been tested in the crucible of human experience.

Today, the movement has realized that science is much more likely to reach an audience which is increasingly looking for demonstrable evidence from which to base their position on social issues.

In my opinion what has happened in this area is that a kind of social ideology is now embedded within the medical paradigm, to the extent that that social judgments are masquerading as scientific judgments making the science a pseudo science, as a relatively small number of people have been placed in a position wherein they can choose what relevant lines of evidence (and what counter arguments) are acceptable and which are not, as deemed by themselves.

And we believe, based on strong social science evidence, that SEL has particular power to unlock a broad range of human capacities — intellectual and emotional — which prepare children to co-create a kinder, more interconnected, and equitable future.

With so much evidence, it's difficult to understand why the cause for teacher rights and professionalism has to go to the U.S. Supreme Court for the public to recognize that labor unions which create and defend laws that treat all teachers the same are at odds with sound social science and what it takes to effectively teach kids.

I was at a dinner a couple weeks back at which several journalists spoke on just this issue, and Shankar Vedantam and Chris Mooney made a good case for what I have also suggested (including in my reply to you on April 6); What's really irrational is for smart people, in support of the myth of perfect rationality and frustrated by the public's «ignorance» about risk, to ignore the mountains of evidence from neuroscience and social sciences about how human perception and decision - making actually works, about risk or anything else.

Dr. Green was the one who said that she had counted many social science papers as mitigation (which was counted as scientific evidence of endorsement of AGW.)

«I was irked by the persistent use of wishy - washy terminology such as «likely» and «very likely» that was totally uncalled for... Such «social sciences» terminology might be allowable if there was no other available evidence for global warming except for the statistical analysis of a relatively short global temperature time - series (on which there is superimposed a substantial natural variability component).

In Bedford and Carter v Canada (Attorney General), 2015 SCC 5, [2015] 1 SCR 331, which dealt with the constitutionality of the provisions of the Criminal Code relative to prostitution and assisted suicide respectively, the evidence that was held to allow lower courts to revisit Supreme Court precedent came mostly from the social sciences.

Law, like all other social sciences and the humanities is driven to change by changing technology — particularly procedural law, of which the law of evidence is a major subdivision.

And we believe, based on strong social science evidence, that SEL has particular power to unlock a broad range of human capacities — intellectual and emotional — which prepare children to co-create a kinder, more interconnected, and equitable future.