Sentences with phrase «social scientists assumed»

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

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When political scientist Gary King of the Institute for Quantitative Social Science at Harvard University and Ph.D. students Jennifer Pan and Margaret Roberts began examining censorship in China in 2011, many scholars assumed that calling for policy changes, criticizing government leaders, and raising sensitive topics like the Tiananmen Square crackdown in 1989 were verboten.

Behavioural scientists usually assume that observation and imitation are at the heart of social learning, but social insects such as bees can also transmit information through touch, vibration and smell.

If they didn't believe a Mexican telling them that raters can't be biased with respect to the outcome of the study — since said outcome in entirely in their hands — or the importance of independence, and bliindness to the identity of the authors / participants, I assume they just asked some white people who would know, some social scientists who are experts in subjective rater study design, interrater reliability, etc..

It is not true that common motives are assumed or that social scientists do not ask people.