Sentences with phrase «social scientists trying»

But the reaction was dismay among the small international community of social scientists trying to figure out how to make sure climate forecasts are useful to, say, an agriculture department in Ethiopia, or trying to figure out how supposed climate fixes like biofuels might create food shortages.

Psychologists extensively study the problem of loneliness in the modern world, with social scientists trying to explain the background and reasons for divorces and failed marriages.

The findings give hope to social scientists trying to understand broader phenomena, like how rumors about a candidate spread during a campaign or how information about street protests flows out of a country with state - controlled media.

Not exact matches

Or try playing on what social scientists call the rule for reciprocation.

At the same time, however, I have called attention to the difficulty of trying to work out an «ecological» approach to social policy when we, like the chaos scientists, know so little about how to predict and influence long - term developments.

In fact, when social scientists contemplate the mutually conditioning relations among human development, family structures, law, commerce, and the overall culture, their situation is similar to that of natural scientists trying to make sense of such complex phenomena as the long - range weather or turbulence in fluids.

At Next Scientist we try to encourage scientists to use blogs and social media in Life Sciences.

This has been controversial for biologists; scientists have reluctantly found themselves acting as social engineers, trying to design new economic opportunities for traditional pastoralists, changing the way people live on the land.

In an example that has been getting wide attention in the media — both journalistic and social — University of Hawaii, Manoa, geobiologist A. Hope Jahren, a full professor who has spent decades building a successful career in academe, warns fellow female scientists of one pattern they are pretty likely to encounter as they try to make their way in academic science: the telltale strategy of a male colleague or superior bent on an exploitative sexual relationship.

Social scientists are trying to explain its persistence

Some social scientists say climate change could lead to escalating violence, and a new study is trying to quantify this increase.

Milgram had said that he got the idea for his small world study from social scientist Ithiel de Sola Pool and mathematician Manfred Kochen, who, in the 1950s, spent a good deal of time trying to arrive at a mathematical formula that would explain how closely all of us are actually connected.

Although I am annoyed that the majority of the posts seem to celebrate a very narrow representation of femininity, my real bitterness comes from the systemic challenges that these posts are working to address, and from seeing so many young female scientists compelled to turn to their personal social media pages to try to correct the system's failures.

But by a stroke of luck, two social scientists who later became leaders of Katrina@10 were uniquely poised to try.

Social scientists have long tried to understand how personality influences political beliefs.

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.

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.

The opening to Gene Roddenberry's 1973 TV movie Genesis II (Warner Archive Collection) takes a while to explain how scientist Dylan Hunt (Alex Cord in a really groovy mustache) went to sleep in 1979 and woke up in 2133, but once he wakes up we're in classic Roddenberry territory of social commentary in sci - fi trappings, in this case a post-apocalyptic world where a (literally) underground society of idealists tries to preserve the art and knowledge of the past in the face of tribal groups fighting for dominance in the world above.

All are undoubtedly linked, but social scientists do try to pry these various forces apart using statistical techniques.

«Relative to other things that social scientists and education policy people have tried to boost performance — class sizes, tracking, new buildings — these schools are producing spectacular gains,» said Joshua Angrist, an M.I.T. professor.

It would be foolhardy for a computer scientist with little or no knowledge of such complexity of language and / or social structure to try to create a «semantic web» in a top - down approach, and any such attempt to create a prescriptive corset — and to force users to use it — will certainly fail.

I guess it doesn't hurt to try, but I sure wish the list of Nobelists had included more social scientists, perhaps Elinor Ostrom of Indiana University or Daniel Kahneman of Princeton, for starters.

Social scientists and economists and climate modellers have tried a number of approaches.

Social scientists were unable to see a problem, are going to try to fix one for all the kids now.

Social scientists have a key role in convincing policy makers that, in the new context of the Anthropocene, geopolitics now has to be about sharing a crowded world rather than trying to dominate a divided one.

«We're trying to identify environmental, economic, social and other impacts of a technology well before it actually exists in the world,» said Jeff Greenblatt, a Berkeley Lab staff scientist who heads the ETA team.

«There has never been a pause in global warming unless you try to create one by looking at an insufficiently large number of data points,» said lead author Stephan Lewandowsky, a social scientist and professor of psychology at the University of Bristol in the U.K..

We (ie those who try to improve the public's science literacy) should listen more, rather than less, to communcations professionals and social scientists.

For example, subject - matter experts should edit for fact, not style; they should also check that social scientists have not garbled the facts when trying to make them clearer.

So to the extent that you are trying to criticize my argument based on the field from which I write, you should know that I approach these things, not as a law professor, but rather as a social scientist with fairly heavy training in statistics.

He said that the «social contract» between scientists and policymakers is broken and must be reforged, and he urged colleagues to try to recruit members of Congress to take up their case.

By contrast, there is no way for a trier of fact to verify the opinion of a social scientist that «street - based venues hold the greatest risk to safety» for prostitutes (see Bedford v. Canada, 2010 ONSC 4264 (CanLII) para. 316.)

The defense can use these social scientists to try to lessen the powerful persuasive effect of a defendants false confession.

Social scientists take a very different approach, studying the behavior of judges rather than legal doctrine and trying to understand what accounts for judicial outcomes and the shape of legal institutions.

I think we need to keep trying our best, as social scientists, to make sure people can accurately see how various romantic patterns can bend the whole curve of their future possibilities in life.