Letter from the President
Year: 2024
Type: article
Abstract: As a teacher of methods, I tend to emphasize what our methodologies cannot do in our efforts to learn things in political science. We must take methodological weaknesses as a given—there is no perfect or ideal approach to any question, because all of our methodological tools are sustained by assumptions that tend to be difficult to demonstrate or “prove” in practice. We must also acknowledge that we, as social scientists, are nonneutral observers of the world. We make choices about our data (Should I code this unit as a 1 or a 0? Did her “no” really mean “yes”?) that inevitably shape what we can know and how we know it.
Author: Cyr, Jennifer
Institution: Universidad Torcuato Di Tella
Language: English
Field: Social Sciences
Domain: Social Sciences
SDG: Quality education
Open Access status: green
OpenAlex ID: W6949196204
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