Search

Scientists, on the other hand, validate their constructs and measures using psychometric tests. ... 8 October Jim Moore (Open University). Making livings: the economic worlds of Wallace and Darwin.

This problem, to be sure, is widespread across the sciences. According to the ‘received view’, invariance under intervention provides the crucial test to decide whether X causes Y. ... Meehl, P.E. (1955). Construct Validity in Psychological Tests.

This talk will tell the story of laboratory pregnancy testing in Britain before the first DIY tests of the 1970s. ... 4 November Sophie Page (University College London) Medicine and learned magic in the late middle ages.

Lecture Theatre, Trinity College on the subject “Coal, steam and ships: Economic historians versus historians of technology?”. ... Should they? Disputes between conventional normative economics and ‘happiness economics’ (around well-being vs.

Computing machinery and intelligence’ ‘The search for intelligent life?’ Turing’s test for acculturation How right was Turing? ... How Turing missed the point about consciousness Is Turing’s imitation game a valid test for intelligence?

23. Jack Wright Essays Double standards? Why do misrepresentations in economics face stricter criticism than those in other sciences? ... Dissertation Separating theories and entities: the search for middle ground in the scientific realism debate

Boas’ methodology in The Mind of Primitive Man: using the Middle East and ‘Mohammedans’ as. ... Commerce'. Natural analogy in English economic thought,. 1622–1672. Dissertation: Metallurgy, agronomy and.

Is ARCH modelling a telling example of a paradigm? A Kuhnian perspective on financial economics. ... supervised by Marina Frasca-Spada) Can economics be modelled? A consensus undermines a paradox (supervised by Christopher.

supervised by Sarah Hodges) ‘Am I depressed?’: shifting self-reporting tests for depression from the clinic to the Internet. ... Dissertation Mithradatium in antiquity and the middle ages: towards an anthropology of antidote.

the Economic and Social Science Research Council.