Social scientists: We interviewed 11 sophomores about intersectional colonialism.
Hard scientists: We weighed the Andromeda galaxy and simulated what will happen when it collides with ours in 5 billion years.
HT @coreyspowellhttps://www.icrar.org/cosmic-collision/ …
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Is your social scientist example typical or atypical of robust data sets in the field?
There's a lot of very strong quantitative work in some social sciences (e.g. big data studies in econometrics, or political attitudes) , but in many, it seems possible to get a Ph.D., or even tenure, with 'qualitative' research on very small convenience samples.
