Stories like this one from the NYT (“Maybe Money Does Buy Happiness”) and articles like this one from Teaching Sociology (sorry, non-university peoples) often get me thinking about what precisely the point of social science is. Or should be.
I really enjoyed the NYT one: here were two generations of researchers bringing evidence to bear [...]
Posts Tagged as ‘ethics’
April 15, 2008
In Which I Reveal My Sadistic Nature
Damn, I want these guys’* institutional review board. I often find myself wistfully telling my students about all the great social experiments I could do if it weren’t for that pesky IRB. Evidently, I just need the right one, and I’ll be on my way to commandeering organizations, crashing stock markets and assassinating [...]
