I’ll confess that I’ve really struggled to gain a foothold in the social sciences. Coming from a background in chemistry and biology, I’m accustomed to poring over pages populated with Greek symbols, Arabic numerals, and seemingly endless streams of As, Ts, Gs and Cs.
Read MoreDo bilinguals have a cognitive advantage?
The media seems to suggest that bilinguals are smarter and healthier than monolinguals. And although slightly exaggerated, they appear to be based on scientific evidence. But if we examine the evidence, is this actually true?
Read MoreComplexity Theory in the Social Sciences: tidying things up or just creating chaos?
“We live in a complex world”. This sentence is constantly used by people around us, and occasionally we might use these words ourselves in conversation. But how complex is it? And, can we really understand its complexity? What about the social world and its complexity? In this post, I introduce the reader to Complexity Theory.
Read MoreThe Uncertainty of Science
Science is a tricky thing to describe. Definitions can be reductionist; for example, the Merriam-Webster Dictionary states that science is “knowledge about, or study of, the natural world based on facts learned through experiments and observation”.
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