Selection Bias and Social Science History
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 11204281 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Kris Inwood (0000-0002-3533-7047, University of Guelph, corresponding author), Hamish Maxwell-Stewart (0000-0001-7336-0953, University of Tasmania) |
| Year | 2020 |
| Volume | 44 |
| Issue | 3 |
| Pages | 411-416 |
| Publication date | 2020-01-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Social Science History (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0145-5532 • E-ISSN: 1527-8034 |
| Publisher | Cambridge University Press (CUP) (PUBLISHER) |
| DOI | 10.1017/ssh.2020.18 |
| OpenAlex | W3047137977 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 9 |
| References cited | 12 |
Historians and social scientists routinely, and inevitably, rely on sources that are unrepresentative of the past. The articles in this special issue of the journal illustrate the widespread prevalence of selection bias in historical sources, and the ways in which historians negotiate this challenge to reach useful conclusions from valuable, if imperfect sources
Economics · Imperfect · Negotiation · Political science · Positive economics · Selection (genetic algorithm · Selection bias · Social science · Sociology · Statistics · Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science · Culture, Economy, and Development Studies · Historical Economic and Social Studies · Mathematics · Media Influence and Politics · Philosophy
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Rethinking the Fertility Transition in Rural Aragón (Spain) Using Height Data
The physical well-being of Indigenous communities in the Pacific Northwest
Uncovering the Archives of the National Union of Students (UK)
Collider bias in economic history research
Historians' fallacies
Rationalism in politics, and other essays.
That Noble Dream
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Historical reconsiderations IX
Historians' Fallacies
How the Cases You Choose Affect the Answers You Get
The Transnational and the Text-Searchable
Bias in Historical Description, Interpretation, and Explanation
The Present and the Past in the English Industrial Revolution 1880-1980
Ex-Slave Interviews and the Historiography of Slavery
Along the Archival Grain
| Unique citing works | 9 |
|---|---|
| Citations per year | 1,5 |
| Citation span | 2020 - 2026 (7) |
| Citation velocity | current |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 9 |