Timeline for How should a social scientist deal with envy of disciplines that are more quantitatively rigorous?
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| Mar 29, 2015 at 22:46 | comment | added | awsoci | +1 :) As a qualitative social scientists who dabbles in quant methods, I think this answer is excellent. We are also starting to see interdisciplinary work occurring, in which engineers and social scientists work together to solve issues in society. The engineers can make the technology, and the social scientists can pinpoint how it can be used to solve a complex social issue. | |
| Mar 23, 2015 at 16:02 | comment | added | David Z | As one of those people who gets data from multibillion dollar machines, I envy social scientists for the relevance (and one might also say importance) of their work. | |
| Mar 23, 2015 at 8:12 | history | edited | Wrzlprmft♦ | CC BY-SA 3.0 |
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| Mar 23, 2015 at 7:37 | comment | added | xLeitix | A very much related question is here - the OP feels that all of Computer Science is just making shit up: academia.stackexchange.com/questions/26918/… | |
| Mar 23, 2015 at 7:36 | comment | added | xLeitix | I can't +1 this AND the comment enough. Really, if you think your discipline isn't good enough, it is likely because you know what the average paper in your discipline looks like vs. the coolest, most influencial papers of other disciplines. You just never see the run-off-the-mills papers of other sciences, and/or you are not well-versed enough in their field to see their specific weaknesses. | |
| Mar 23, 2015 at 4:42 | comment | added | jakebeal | Trendy but sloppy quantitative work happens in every field: if you don't see it in another field, it's only because you don't know the field well enough to understand which bits are sloppy. | |
| Mar 23, 2015 at 4:34 | comment | added | social_science_phd | I wholeheartedly agree that social science problems are very important -- that's how I got interested in it in the first place. The problem is that I've become disheartened when I see (feel?) that social science isn't accumulating knowledge and moving towards solving those problems (given the difficulties you mentioned + trendy but sloppy quantitative work) | |
| Mar 23, 2015 at 4:21 | history | answered | jakebeal | CC BY-SA 3.0 |