I was attracted to Math and the Social Sciences because my first sociology course with Professor James Davis introduced me to the idea that the fuzzy issues of social behavior were amenable to quantitative analysis.
[more]Let's say I hit the big red reset button on Humanity and everyone suddenly forgot their social identity, social status, and government. What would happen on Day Two?
[more]The Program in Quantitative Social Science (QSS) seeks a postdoctoral research fellow for full-time appointment during the 2017-2018 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 and computational research techniques with contemporary social science questions.
[more]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 2017-18 academic year. QSS is an interdisciplinary program that integrates modern statistical, computational, and mathematical tools with social science questions. Each successful fellow should be highly motivated, collegial, and able to work independently, and the fellow’s research agenda should be grounded methodologically in statistics or other computational techniques.
[more]The first QSS Research Design Seminar was given by DJ Flynn, Post-Doctoral Fellow in the Program in Quantitative Social Science, Dartmouth College on July 12, 2016. His project uses surveys and experiments to examine the causes and consequences of exaggerated beliefs about the power of the American president.
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