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Jan 16, 2025 | 
socialsciencespace.com | David Canter |Robert Dingwall |Joe Sweeney |John Bratton
January 16, 2025 12 It was Marx (Karl, not Groucho, although he probably made a relevant comment, too) who drew attention to the significance of owning the means of production. This disenfranchised and enslaved those who had to work within those factories.
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Nov 8, 2024 | 
socialsciencespace.com | Megan Clement |Joe Sweeney |Laura Hood |David Canter
November 8, 2024 14 In the UK, it’s November 20. In France, it’s today, November 8. For the EU, it’s November 15. It’s the day of the year that women begin working for free compared to men due to the gender pay gap.
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Oct 16, 2024 | 
socialsciencespace.com | David Canter |Renaud Foucart
October 16, 2024 25 For most people it is difficult to understand why the QAnon conspiracy theory and its related beliefs is held by so many apparently rational, reasonably educated Americans. QAnon is a wide-ranging, completely unfounded theory.
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Oct 2, 2024 | 
socialsciencespace.com | David Canter |Laura Hood |Renaud Foucart
October 2, 2024 64 What has your brain ever done for you? Let’s face it. The brain is an organ like the heart or the liver. Sure, it’s a fiendishly complex organ. It is probably the most important one for controlling bodily functions. But you cannot exist without the lungs or a kidney, either.
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Jul 10, 2024 | 
linkedin.com | David Canter
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Feb 21, 2024 | 
socialsciencespace.com | David Canter |Christopher Everett |Deondre Smiles |Andrae Alexander
February 21, 2024 114 There is a tendency to think of automatic online processes as neutral and mathematically logical. They are usually described as algorithms. That means they consist of a series of pre-planned calculations that can be reduced to the most elementary operations, such as plus, minus, if then.
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Jan 8, 2024 | 
socialsciencespace.com | David Canter |Christopher Everett |Michael Todd |Kat Hart
January 8, 2024 57 The work of human hands retains evidence of the humans who created the works. While this might seem obvious in the case of something like a painting, where the artist’s touch is the featured aspect, it’s much less obvious in things that aren’t supposed to betray their humanity.
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Jul 19, 2023 | 
tinyurl.com | David Canter
Our long-time blogger David Canter considers what he has learned while completing his PhD in music composition. He spent a lifetime as a social scientist, requiring every argument to be bolstered by some form of empirical evidence, or at least a supportive citation from the works of others.
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Mar 23, 2023 | 
socialsciencespace.com | David Canter
David Canter asks if ‘all-purpose’ police forces are no longer fit for purposePerhaps the most well-known police force in the world, referred to as Scotland Yard, has just received a damning indictment from a major government enquiry. Described as institutionally racist, misogynistic and homophobic, allowing police officers to go unchallenged when committing sexual offences and domestic violence.
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Mar 2, 2023 | 
socialsciencespace.com | David Canter
Pulling yourself up by your bootlaces is a process that often happens in statistical calculations. In effect, the data is put through a series of analyses to try and reveal interesting patterns within it. Nothing new is added or taken away. The numbers are just crunched and re-crunched until they give up something that looks like the secrets the numbers may be hiding.
