Sentences with phrase «social scientists think»

«RECENT ADVANCES»??? Social scientists think this is some sort of recent breakthrough — that humans are not robots?

But social scientists think about organizations based on their powers and incentives, not their mission.

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.

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?

Not exact matches

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

If that seems challenging, think about this: many leading researchers and social scientists have proven a link between diversity and productivity.

While the thought of having difficult conversations may fill most of us with dread, business social scientist Joseph Grenny says avoiding conflict is a big mistake.

Wasserstein cites almost all historians of European thought who are critical of Arendt, but he cites no political scientist or social scientist who responded to her work in a positive way.

Too often the church goes to the social scientists who can describe communities and who may be very helpful to Christians as they think about society but who, because of their analytic language, can not create or reinforce community.

For the open - minded among the social scientists, Girard's work can serve as a gateway for the introduction of Kierkegaardian insights into social scientific thinking, which will always remain woefully incomplete as long as it functions without reference to religious transcendence.

So here's what I think about the election: The forecasts — based on complicated models — found in the APSA's PS by real social scientists — with the exception of the one by the astute James Campbell — are, as usual, too timid in terms of picking up the impending surge....

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.

They just wanted to get some of the new money, I thought, whereas I was approaching the issue administratively, and as a social scientist.

I think myth is a useful concept for the social scientist because it opens up new avenues for analysis.

It will bring together expert social, biological and medical scientists to take forward thinking and explore the opportunities for promoting co-operation and collaboration between scientists and social scientists in the field of epigenetics The symposium is being organised by the Economic and Social Research Council (ESRC) with support from the Genomics Forum, and the Biotechnology and Biological Sciences Research Council (Bsocial, biological and medical scientists to take forward thinking and explore the opportunities for promoting co-operation and collaboration between scientists and social scientists in the field of epigenetics The symposium is being organised by the Economic and Social Research Council (ESRC) with support from the Genomics Forum, and the Biotechnology and Biological Sciences Research Council (Bsocial scientists in the field of epigenetics The symposium is being organised by the Economic and Social Research Council (ESRC) with support from the Genomics Forum, and the Biotechnology and Biological Sciences Research Council (BSocial Research Council (ESRC) with support from the Genomics Forum, and the Biotechnology and Biological Sciences Research Council (BBSRC).

«People often have trouble understanding why a social scientist is involved because they think it's the realm of the marine biologists,» he says.

But the new survey, conducted by social scientists from the University of Wisconsin (UW) in Madison and Temple University in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, found that two - thirds of the 1600 respondents thought genome editing was generally «acceptable.»

Surveys of graduating STEM students show that they value social «recognition» and that they think society holds professionals such as doctors and corporate executives in higher esteem than scientists.

An irony: amid all this highfalutin braggadocio of how close we are to computers taking over the world and emulating human thought, I had to give my talk on the «social singularity» (progress in political, economic and social systems over the past 10,000 years) early because Rice University computer scientist James McLurkin could not get his small swarm of robots to work.

«Estimating flu in specific, localized populations pushes the limits of what we thought we could do [with social media], and it opens the door to new possibilities,» says Mark Dredze, a computer scientist at Johns Hopkins University, who was not involved in the new study.

Gene drive is so different from other technologies involving genetic modification that it requires a whole new way of thinking about how to evaluate and regulate it, says Jennifer Kuzma, a natural and social scientist at North Carolina State University (NCSU) in Raleigh who helped organize a February workshop there.

In developing the report, various applications were used to stimulate discussion among synthetic biologists, ecologists, environmental scientists and social scientists, as well as representatives from government, the private sector, academia, environmental organizations and think tanks.

Humans have intricate memories that allow them to keep track of individuals, but scientists have long thought that social insects like wasps eschew recognition of specific individuals in favor of general social rules that apply to everyone.

Some people think there is no way that the online world can have an effect on real life; others argue that social media is so influential that the Arab Spring was catalyzed by networking sites, says James Fowler, a political scientist at the University of California, San Diego, who led the study in collaboration with Facebook's data - science team.

All of this suggests that circadian clocks can be cued by social roles and that the rhythms can be much more complicated than scientists thought, the team reports online today in the Proceedings of the Royal Society B. «People seem to think about daily activity patterns as something that's more or less fixed in a species,» Kempenaers says.

«We don't think every [baby boomer] needs to run out and see their primary care provider and get tested immediately, but they shouldn't put this off for years either,» says CDC's Bryce Smith, a social scientist who is the lead author of the recommendations published in the Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report.

So, whereas the typical person might think of their «environment» as their house, or their neighborhood - scientists trying to understand the factors that influence the development of schizophrenia define environment to include everything from the social, nutritional, hormonal and chemical environment in the womb of the mother during pregnancy, up to the social dynamics and stress a person is exposed to, to street drug use, education, virus exposure, vitamin use, and any other factor that could possibly be involved with the development of schizophrenia.

But if individual scientists doing what they love and advancing their own spheres of influence, impact and support on Instagram are even to the tiniest extent create greater public exposure to minority scientists and changing stereotypes via social media (which I believe they are, based on data), I think some freaking celebration is deserved.

So, whereas the typical person might think of their «environment» as their house, or their neighborhood - scientists trying to understand the factors that influence the development of schizophrenia define environment to include everything from the social, nutritional, hormonal and chemical environment in the womb of the mother during pregnancy, up to the social dynamics and stress a person experiences, to street drug use, education, virus exposure, vitamin use, and much, much more.

In Educational Goods, the authors — two philosophers and two social scientists — offer «a framework for thinking about the goals of education» and for making decisions based on those ends.

Like many other statistically minded social scientists of his time, he thought of regression and analysis of variance as tools that did not merely break an outcome, such as achievement, into partial correlations.

The hypotheses may not be very original or earth - shaking to social scientists themselves — for example, that one can find circumstances in which some phenomenon that has plugged along suddenly undergoes a rapid change (The Tipping Point), or that an idea or plan that comes in a flash may be as good as something developed with a great deal of research and much thought (Blink), or that success may be based more on special opportunities and hard work than on native gifts (the current Outliers).

A different question — a good think - tank question — is how social scientists can determine, in the initial stages of a major reform like the Common Core, whether the «theory of action» is playing out as expected.

The foundation embraced what many social scientists had concluded was the prime solution: Instead of losing kids in large schools like Manual, the new thinking was to divide them into smaller programs with 200 to 600 students each.

Selected Foreign Publications about Howard Gardner (PDF) Mind, Work, and Life: A Festschrift On the Occasion of Howard Gardner's 70th Birthday (PDF) «A Blessing of Influences,» an excerpt of an autobiographical essay published in Howard Gardner Under Fire (PDF) One Way of Making a Social Scientist (PDF) Short biography written by Ellen Winner (PDF) «My Way,» a chapter in Psychologists Defying the Crowd by Robert Sternberg (Amazon) Fifty Modern Thinkers of Education: From Piaget to the Present Day (Amazon) «21 years later, «Multiple Intelligences» still debated» (Washington Post) «Thought Leaders: An Interview with Howard Gardner» (Strategy & Business)

We're partnering with forward - thinking school operators, learning scientists, and R&D talent not just to replicate the emerging education innovations such as personalized learning, design thinking, and social and emotional learning, but also to deliberately and responsibly test innovative school model components, get actionable feedback, and iterate the approach.

I don't think it's because he doesn't practice what he preaches — he's a social media scientist, not a book marketer.

That got scientists thinking: Would dogs be willing to share treats in other social settings?

Aiming to push back against the narrative that progressive politics don't have a place in gaming, the three day event at Parsons School of Design from July 31st to August 2nd, brought together educators, developers, social scientists, neuroscientists, business people, and fans to think through what videogames can do to enhance the world.

There is also, of course, the tension between empiricism and scientific theory, as demonstrated often in engineering: English suspension bridge designers in the 19th century were generally empirical, and their bridges stood; French were highly scientific and theoretical, and their first bridges, tho elegant, almost all failed (turned out to be the way they anchored their cables)... and the regrettable tendency of scientists to think that, because they are authoritative in their own field, they are thereby authoritative in policy and social engineering...

I think it simply that scientists are human too, that the practice of science is a social as well as a scientific activity, and the social aspects can sometimes overwhelm the scientific ideal.

In this it shares a lot of characteristics with some of the engineering and social sciences for example (as an aside I get a wry smile when I hear people say climate science is unique because we only have one experiment, and think about the way social scientists leap on those rare longitudinal studies to help them understand things like learning and criminal behaviour).

I'm not a scientist myself any more than the average layperson is occasionally called to think scientifically, but I live embedded in a social fabric of scientist family members and acquaintances.

The myth that until very recently we used to think that the climate was constant is also propagated by the CRU climate scientists, who write on their history page:» Hubert Lamb's determination and vision can only be appreciated in the context of the view, generally prevailing within the scientific establishment in the 1960s, that the climate for all practical purposes could be treated as constant on timescales that are of relevance to humanity and its social and economic systems.»

«Speaking as a natural scientist,» he said, «I think 90 % of research [on global change] will have to be done by the social scientists.»

There was a time when the social sciences felt it necessary to scrutinise the natural sciences, on the basis that scientists weren't quite as objective as they liked to think they were.

Again familiar to readers of this blog, this point is consistent with research showing that people who «think like scientists» tend to use their skills to reinforce existing social, political, and cultural group allegiances.

But it was cold this winter and C02 is plant food and only a trace gas and the greenhouse effect has been disproved anyway and even if the greenhouse effect does exist, C02 has negligible impact compared to water vapour and our only source of heat is the sun so it must be the sun, unless it is due to the C02 from volcanoes, but C02 follows warming so it can't be the C02 and the medieval warm period was warmer anyway and all the temperature reconstructions that show this not to be true are produced by corrupt scientists being paid by corrupt governments that have colluded to create an excuse to form a one world unelected social - ist government and even if the scientists are not that corrupt, although the e-mails prove they are, they have still got it wrong as the climate sensitivity is not as high as they think it is because it is basically the planets orbits and cosmic rays so we can say for a fact that the warming that probably does not exist is definatley not due to humans and even if it was the evidence is not sufficient to make drastic changes to the economy and increase taxes so that the politicians and scientists and business leaders get rich and leave us all poor — do they think we are stupid or something?

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.

I do not think we need to add draconian professional regulation, but imagine what would happen if, in addition to a librarian and clinician on every ABA law school inspection committee, we had a sociologist or other social scientist examining the data on careers, the preparation that students have for the careers that they will pursue, and the quality of the teaching and evaluation assessment related generally to the third apprenticeship.