Correlations Between the Physical and Social Sciences - Softcover

Belfiglio, Valentine J.

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0761855890 ISBN 13: 9780761855897

Publisher: University Press of America, 2011

Synopsis

This monograph presents four case studies that make correlations between the physical and social sciences. The traditional, empirical, and postmodernist approaches to the study of the social sciences have left many scholars dissatisfied with the results of these methods. The empiricists were on the right track, but they did not go far enough. It is important to anchor statistical data to mathematical formulae or the laws of physics in order to minimize the conscious or unconscious bias of some scholars, who might otherwise manipulate data in support of preconceived notions. Mathematical formulae and the laws of physics can take scholars further in deriving conclusions from sets of assumptions than can inferential statistics. The use of inferential statistics in the social sciences is sufficiently regular that correlations from some mathematical formulae and physical laws prove valid.

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Correlations Between the Physical and Social Sciences by Valentine J. Belfiglio presents four case studies that make correlations between the physical and social sciences, stressing it is important to anchor statistical data to mathematical formulae or the laws of physics to minimize the conscious and unconscious bias of some scholars who might otherwise manipulate data in support of preconceived notions.--Mensa Bulletin

About the Author:

Valentine J. Belfiglio is a professor of political science at the Texas Women’s University. He has written six books and more than one hundred articles. His specialties are international relations and American national defense policy.

About this edition

• Publisher: University Press of America
• Publication date: 2011
• ISBN 10: 0761855890
• ISBN 13: 9780761855897
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 62