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What Are the Hard Problems in the Social Sciences?

- April 15, 2010

That was the title of a recent symposium at Harvard, featuring contributions from political scientists Gary King and James Fowler, among others. The symposium’s website is here, which includes a video of the proceedings. Gary King’s presentation centered on post-treatment bias. See his slides here. James Fowler’s comments defending the hardness of the social sciences are mentioned in this story.

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