Lecture 6

Priming as a tool for psychology studies

• Saying orange increases the probability of thinking the word orange

Strategies for evading p-value hacking

• Multiple nobel prize winners have been accused of p value hacking
• Prevent researchers from p-value hacking by requiring multiple measurements and proof of concept

19th Century Eugenicists

• Why were they trying to better then world through data
• The Enlightenment caused us to believe that reason applied to social problems is supposed to better society
• Used data to approach poverty

Enlightenment and Post-Enlightenment Philosophers

Malthus vs Adam Smith

• Malthus believes that resources would not grow to fit the needs of population
• Smith won

Condorcet and Laplace

• Willingness to look critically
• Move from individually reasoning to aggregate description

Social mathematics transition to scientific racism

• Gould, Galton
• States can matter in understanding their people under administrative categories
• Statistical understanding of social problems
• Historical context in evolutionary biology

Pearson

• Was an anti-realist

Gould

• Potential take away could be that quantification doesn't matter
• Support for policy