The ASA's Missed Opportunity to Promote Sound Science in Court
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 2330635 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Gregory Mitchell (0000-0003-0877-1371, University of Virginia, Charlottesville, VA, USA), Jl Monahan (0000-0003-4431-3028, University of Virginia), John Monahan (University of Virginia, Charlottesville, VA, USA), Laurens Walker (University of Virginia, Charlottesville, VA, USA) |
| Year | 2011 |
| Volume | 40 |
| Issue | 4 |
| Pages | 605-620 |
| Publication date | 2011-11-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Sociological Methods & Research (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0049-1241 • E-ISSN: 1552-8294 |
| Publisher | SAGE Publications Inc (PUBLISHER) |
| DOI | 10.1177/0049124111412714 |
| OpenAlex | W3122574287 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 6 |
| References cited | 16 |
The American Sociological Association (ASA) filed an amicus brief in Wal-Mart v. Dukes in which the ASA defended the testimony of the plaintiffs' sociological expert. Unfortunately, the ASA's portrayal and defense of the method and opinions of this expert do not match the actual method used, and opinions offered, by the expert in the Wal-Mart case. The authors demonstrate that none of the ASA's defenses of the expert's method has merit and that the expert violated basic methodological rules set out by the ASA's own sources. The opinions to which the expert testified, therefore, lacked a scientific foundation
Expert opinion · Expert witness · Foundation (evidence · Plaintiff · Political science · Set (abstract data type · Sociology · Sound (geography) · Academic Freedom and Politics · Computational and Text Analysis Methods · Computer Science · Contemporary Sociological Theory and Practice · Innovative Teaching Methodologies in Social Sciences · Law · Medicine · Psychology
| Unique citing works | 6 |
|---|---|
| Citations per year | 0,4 |
| Citation span | 2011 - 2015 (5) |
| Citation velocity | historical |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 6 |