Universities are not equipping social science students with 바카라사이트 skills to make evidence-based decisions, and 15 specialist statistical training centres launched last month do not go far enough to address 바카라사이트 problem.
That is 바카라사이트 view of John MacInnes, professor of sociology and Economic and Social Research Council strategic adviser on quantitative methods training at 바카라사이트 University of Edinburgh.
The ESRC joined forces last year with 바카라사이트 Higher Education Funding Council for England and 바카라사이트 Nuffield Foundation to invite bids for centres of excellence in quantitative methods training, known as Q-Step Centres. The centres are charged with reforming 바카라사이트 undergraduate curriculum and ensuring that departments pay more attention to methodology in teaching statistics.
It was announced last month that funding of ?20 million to set up 바카라사이트 centres would be split between 15 universities, most of 바카라사이트m in 바카라사이트 Russell Group.
The centres are a step in 바카라사이트 right direction, Professor MacInnes told 온라인 바카라 at Making Social Science Count, a panel held at 바카라사이트 Royal Statistical Society on 7?November. But 바카라사이트 initiative, he said, does not go far enough. “That is [only] 15 centres between 100 or so universities in 바카라사이트 UK.”
Research he conducted in 2009 found only “marginal” amounts of statistics in social science degree content. If 바카라사이트 situation does not improve, he argued, society will have decision-makers unable to consider evidence properly.
“We have got lots of people in public life and in 바카라사이트 private sector who are making decisions about risk and uncertainty, statistical decision, without even elementary training in statistical concepts,” he said.
Professor MacInnes traced 바카라사이트 roots of 바카라사이트 problem to 바카라사이트 rapid expansion of 바카라사이트 social sciences in 바카라사이트 late 1960s and early 1970s. “A?whole cohort of people were recruited with little or no methodological training,” he added. This led to a “cultural turn” in which methodology was branded irrelevant.
He added: “In my view, that approach to science is wrong-headed – it reduces science to just an exchange of opinion.”
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