In March 2018, nine undergraduates representing the Program in Quantitative Social Science (QSS) and the Dartmouth Sports Analytics Club (DSA) attended the 2018 MIT-Sloan Sports Analytics Conference. DSA co-founders Andrew Wolff ’18, and Joshua Ufland ’18 were there with club members Steven Chun ’19 and Jack Kurtz ‘21. These students attended panels...
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In a new study, QSS Steering Committee member Brendan Nyhan, with co-authors Andrew Guess (Princeton University) and Jason Reifler (University of Exeter) examine the reach and effect of fake news.
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Though some warnings about online “echo chambers” have been hyperbolic, tendencies toward selective exposure to politically congenial content are likely to extend to misinformation and to be exacerbated by social media platforms. We test this prediction using data on the...
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Erik Peterson, a postdoctoral fellow in the Program in Quantitative Social Science, recently published an article on candidate communication in the Journal of Experimental Political Science. Peterson and his...
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At a political psychology conference held at the...
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The Program in Quantitative Social Science is located on campus in Silsby Hall. Originally built in the late 1920s, Silsby houses a number of social science units, QSS included. The QSS space was remodeled during the summer of 2017, and the first QSS postdoctoral fellow to move in is Jun Zhao. Jun received her doctorate in Sociology from University of Georgia, and her dissertation was titled The Role of Educational...
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I just started at The Oregonian for the summer as a data reporting intern. I’m still figuring out my exact project assignments, but the first few days I’ve been looking into government salary data and have felt very prepared thanks to the QSS program. I think the work overall might skew a bit more towards Python and my computer science background, but the ability to think critically about data and how it might answer and reveal certain questions has certainly been an advantage in journalism...
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The Program in Quantitative Social Science (QSS) seeks a postdoctoral research fellow for the 2018-2019 academic year. The fellow will work with Professor of Government Brendan Nyhan and be housed in and affiliated with QSS, an interdisciplinary program that integrates modern statistical, computational, and mathematical tools with social science questions. Applicants should have a proven record of research success; excellent writing and organizational skills; and expertise in experimental...
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The Program in Quantitative Social Science (QSS) at Dartmouth College is pleased to announce that it is searching for up to three postdoctoral fellows for the 2018-19 academic year. QSS is an interdisciplinary program that integrates modern statistical, computational, and mathematical tools with social science questions. Each fellow should be highly motivated, collegial, and able to work independently on a research agenda that is grounded in quantitative social science.
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June 22-24, 2017 • Dartmouth College • Hanover, New Hampshire
Affect control theory (ACT) examines how sentiment norms – our culturally shared meanings for particular types of actors, behaviors, emotions, and social settings – organize social life and direct us toward a mutual interpretive framework for interaction. To find out more about this conference content and schedule, read here.
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In a Letter to the Editor of The Dartmouth, Professor of Government and Latin American, Latino and Caribbean Studies and Cheheyl Director of the Dartmouth Center for the Advancement of Learning Lisa Baldez responds to a recent article entitled "Level Footing: The Professor-Student Dynamic."
This article by Eliza Jane Schaeffer describes what empowers students—and what fosters learning: “building a relationship between students and professors, helping students engage with the...
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