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Modesty can be constructive: Linking theory and evidence in social science

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  26 February 2014

Steven N. Durlauf*
Affiliation:
Department of Economics, University of Wisconsin at Madison, Madison, WI 53706. sdurlauf@ssc.wisc.eduhttp://www.ssc.wisc.edu/econ/Durlauf/

Abstract

This commentary argues that Bentley et al.’s mapping of shifts in collective human behavior provides a novel vision of how social science theory can inform large data set analysis.

Type
Open Peer Commentary
Copyright
Copyright © Cambridge University Press 2014 

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