Should Science Guide Social Change?

Democratizing Data Science Effecting positive social change with data science

The effective translation of data into novel insights, discoveries, and solutions, also known as data science, has enormous potential to bring about positive social change. In this paper, we propose ways to “democratize data science”: that is, to allocate the power of data science to society’s greatest needs. Two underlying challenges are 1) the misalignment of economic incentives to aspiring d...

A Guide for Social Science Students and Researchers

Should neuroconstructivism guide developmental research?

In her recent paper, Usha Goswami [1] argues in favour of developmental studies of developmental dyslexia, a point that has been well appreciated for at least 20 years [2,3]. She also argues in favour of a certain class of theories of dyslexia, namely theories involving a phonological deficit arising from auditory processing problems, a view that has met with some success [4]. More surprising i...

Social science. Computational social science.

Should Ecological Science Be Ethical?

Both scientific and moral communities have identified that current management of the natural environment by humans is unsustainable. How society responds to environmental challenges will likely require a multi-disciplinary approach. Jenkins addresses the contributions that science, religion and ethics can make to resolving complex environmental problems and increasing successful management of e...