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Social science has always been very complex, so why is computational social science just right now becoming as relevant as it is?
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How frequently has the amount of technologically stored information “doubled” over recent decades?
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If we would take the amount of information the world can store in all of its technological devices, stored it in books instead, and made a pile, how far would this pile reach?
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Up to 80% of the decisions on the stock market are nowadays taken by:
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Why does the digital revolution have an influence on evolution?
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On basis of what argument was it claimed in the lectures that the Social Sciences are the most complex of all sciences?
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Social scientists study emergent phenomena that interact with the rules and laws of other scientific disciplines. We discussed a simplified version of a pyramid of different scientific disciplines. What was the order we discussed in class?
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Reviewing the historical context of science, we learned about so-called problems of ‘simplicity’, ‘averages’, and ‘organized complexity’. Which of the following statements is true?
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Reviewing the historical context of science, we learned about so-called problems of ‘simplicity’, ‘averages’, and ‘organized complexity’. Which of the following statements is true?
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With computational technology, social science studies have recently started to make predictions with accuracy up to:
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According to an eminent social scientist, merely quantitative difference beyond a certain point will lead to qualitative changes, which is the definition of what happens when social emergence occurs (which has been dubbed the ‘metaphysical principle of Dialectics’). Who was the scientist?
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We have reviewed some of the topics studied by seminal social scientists, including Adam Smith, Emile Durkheim, Jean-J. Rousseau and Karl Marx, and came to the conclusion that they are all interested in:
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In the book Godel, Escher and Bach, an anteater interacts with a socially emergent entity. What is it?
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The scientific method based on working with ideas that might not even exist in reality is called:
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The scientific method based on making observations by collecting data is called:
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In lecture, we talked about the fact that the scientific framework of relativity, led by Albert Einstein, followed which stylized trajectory?
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In lecture, we talked about the stylized fact Albert Einstein started his inquiry into relativity by basing it on solid:
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When we collect ‘big data’ and try to analyze what happened, we are exploring social reality through:
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When we grow artificial societies in hypothetical computer simulations on our screens and test for different scenarios, we are exploring social reality through:
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The method that Charles Darwin spearheaded in the work on evolution by going from phenomenon over models and hypothesis toward a scientific theory is called:
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The method that Albert Einstein spearheaded in the work on relativity by going from mathematical theories over hypothesis toward observable phenomena is called:
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An influential CEO has a theory about how society works and in order to convince investors to help develop technology that takes advantage of this dynamic, he hires analysts to collect empirical data that will verify these ideas. This process from theoretical framework to empirical evidence is called:
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In lecture, we reviewed examples of policy work done at the United Nations, that used observational data in order to create some theories about what matters for development. This process from empirical evidence to theoretical framework is called:
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What is the meaning behind the tongue-in-cheek name of ‘glass of red wine theorizing’, which we used to describe a very common way to deduce hypotheses in the social sciences.
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When repeating a scientific study, we often find that we are not able to obtain the same result. This is very confusing, since it does not allow us to verify our knowledge. This phenomenon is called:
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Not without tongue in cheek, in lecture, we gave an unconventional name to a very common way to deduce hypotheses in the social sciences. What was it?
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What proportion of psychological experiments cannot be reproduced with the same result successfully?
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Which of the following statements is false?
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True or false. We discussed how computational social science methods can be used to reorganize the sequence to sub-sequentially employ different aspects of the scientific method, including empirical, analytical and theoretical approaches. After careful review, we found one optimal way to go through the circle in order to create knowledge.
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Which aspects of the scientific method does computational social science cover?
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What is the fundamental paradigm that drives the possibility of doing computational social science?
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