Being a well-regarded sociologist in your field, Hugo, do you have any tips for identifying spurious studies and separating them from studies with sound methodologies? You clearly read a lot of these papers in your capacity as a social science researcher, so I was hoping as an expert you'd be able to give us some rules of thumb for interpreting those reports.
Karl wrote:Being a well-regarded sociologist in your field, Hugo, do you have any tips for identifying spurious studies and separating them from studies with sound methodologies? You clearly read a lot of these papers in your capacity as a social science researcher, so I was hoping as an expert you'd be able to give us some rules of thumb for interpreting those reports.
Surely I'm allowed to be suspicious of social sciences without being an expert in the field, no?