Is social science research trustworthy? The economist Noah Smith raises this question in a recent piece entitled “How many of our ‘facts’ about society health, and the economy are fake?” As he points ...

The applied social science research methods certificate is for students in education, the nonprofit sector and government positions who hold a bachelor's degree. Through this program, you'll learn how ...

The use of computational methods and tools to deepen our understanding of long-standing questions in the social sciences has been rapidly growing in recent years. This Collection includes manuscripts ...

Part One: The nature and process of social research ; Social research strategies ; Research designs ; Planning a research project and formulating research questions ; Getting started: Reviewing the ...

Research from MIT Sloan School of Management has demonstrated a new way of designing social science experiments that can uncover patterns invisible to common approaches. In their paper titled ...

Students learn how to translate topics of interest to them into social-scientific research questions and testable hypotheses and learn how to identify appropriate method(s) for exploring or testing ...

"If you have even the most minute interest in the DACSS program, regardless of what you want to use it for, give it a shot. Take one course and see if you get a feel for it." - Bryn Kruzlic, MS in ...