Artificial intelligence models used to detect depression on social media are often biased and methodologically flawed, ...

Social science research may also be more prone to political bias due to the nature of research topics, which often intersect with current political issues and public debates. This can lead to the ...

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Social science is the study of individuals' behavior in society. Its academic disciplines are anthropology, economics, political science, psychology, and sociology.

Social science is in crisis because the publication process is broken, and thus, readers cannot trust what they read in even the most prestigious journals.

It was. Of 21 social and behavioral science papers in Science and Nature that met the study criteria between 2010 and 2015, ...

That means once social science identifies a goal, whether it is low poverty or high subjective well-being, the measurement of that goal becomes gameable and politicized, undermining its value. The ...

That achievement will open up the ability to score genetic potential on those traits and thereby revolutionize the social sciences. The methods of scoring are improving almost monthly, but the ...

Social Science One proposes to create a secure computing environment on Facebook’s servers where approved academics will log in and eventually have access to the totality of our Facebook data ...