Hacker News with Generative AI: Social Sciences

Why Computing Belongs Within the Social Sciences (2020) (cacm.acm.org)
Fully appreciating the overarching scope of CS requires weaving more than ethics into the reigning curricula.

Computer Science, Social Sciences, Education, Curriculum

8 points by Tomte 7 days ago | 0 comments

Reimagining Democracy (schneier.com)
Imagine that all of us—all of society—have landed on some alien planet and need to form a government: clean slate. We do not have any legacy systems from the United States or any other country. We do not have any special or unique interests to perturb our thinking. How would we govern ourselves?

Democracy, Governance, Political Systems, Social Sciences

36 points by cratermoon 27 days ago | 12 comments

US conservatives far more skeptical of science than previously thought (independent.co.uk)
New research by social psychologists at the University of Amsterdam, published in the journal Nature Human Behavior, shows that America's conservatives distrust science to a far greater extent than previously understood.

Science, Politics, Social Sciences, Research, United States

16 points by anigbrowl 37 days ago | 5 comments

Gen Z, less educated, more conservative people more vulnerable to misinformation (sciencedirect.com)

Generations, Misinformation, Education, Politics, Social Sciences

10 points by lentoutcry 44 days ago | 2 comments

Study: Even richest Americans face shorter lifespans than European counterparts (brown.edu)
Comparing wealth and survival rates in the U.S. with those in Europe, researchers found that over a 10-year period, Americans across all wealth levels were more likely to die than their European counterparts.

Health, Wealth Inequality, Social Sciences, Europe, United States

14 points by car 46 days ago | 7 comments

“The closer to the train station, the worse the kebab” – a “study” (jmspae.se)
I came across this post sharing a hypothesis from a French subreddit;

Food, Social Sciences, France, Reddit, Hypothesis

586 points by TeMPOraL 88 days ago | 353 comments

What normal life is like around the world, from Kenya to Ukraine (gapminder.org)
Dollar Street is a Gapminder project - free for anyone to use.

Culture, Global Comparisons, Social Sciences, Photography, Data Visualization

11 points by danduma 89 days ago | 1 comments

Misinformation fuels outrage and mindless social-media shares – study (kellogg.northwestern.edu)
Misinformation fuels outrage—which in turn leads to mindless social-media shares, a new study finds.

Misinformation, Social Media, Psychology, Research, Social Sciences

84 points by gnabgib 166 days ago | 80 comments

Probable Predictors of Involuntary Singlehood (sciencedirect.com)
People living in contemporary post-industrial societies frequently find themselves being single without wanting so, and the current research aimed to understand the reasons why.

Social Sciences, Sociology, Relationships, Singles, Demographics

25 points by domofutu 176 days ago | 2 comments

Defensive Communication (1961) (reagle.org)
One way to understand communication is to view it as a people process rather than a language process.

Communication, Psychology, Social Sciences

138 points by yamrzou 193 days ago | 64 comments

Social Determinants of Health (wikipedia.org)
The social determinants of health (SDOH) are the economic and social conditions that influence individual and group differences in health status.

Health, Social Sciences, Sociology

5 points by sandwichsphinx 198 days ago | 0 comments

Poor Perception of Friendship Ties Limits the Ability to Promote Change (2016) (plos.org)
Studies of collective action have shown that social influence can greatly facilitate mobilization around collective goods, predict success of the action, and guide its design [1].

Social Sciences, Collective Action, Psychology, Social Influence

63 points by sandwichsphinx 216 days ago | 20 comments

Show HN: Contagious Beliefs–Simulating Political Alignment (nonzerosum.games)
Humans are social animals, and as such we are influenced by the beliefs of those around us. This simulation explores how beliefs can spread through a population, and how indirect relationships between beliefs can lead to unexpected correlations.

Social Sciences, Simulation, Political Science, Beliefs

17 points by NonZeroSumJames 216 days ago | 0 comments

Understanding how bureaucracy develops (dhruvmethi.substack.com)

Bureaucracy, Social Sciences, Politics, Sociology

196 points by dhruvmethi 218 days ago | 97 comments

Online Dating Caused a Rise in US Income Inequality, Research Paper Shows (bloomberg.com)
Online dating may be partially to blame for an increase in income inequality in the US in recent decades, according to a research paper.

Social Sciences, Income Inequality, Online Dating, Research

20 points by impish9208 250 days ago | 7 comments

Selected academic fields by estimated intelligence (twitter.com)

Intelligence, Academia, Social Sciences

5 points by ivewonyoung 255 days ago | 5 comments

Is marriage associated with happiness for men or for women? Or both? Or neither? (stat.columbia.edu)

Marriage, Relationships, Gender, Social Sciences, Statistics

19 points by zaik 269 days ago | 15 comments

American IQ Scores Have Rapidly Dropped, Proving the 'Reverse Flynn Effect' (popularmechanics.com)

Intelligence, Education, Social Sciences, Trends

11 points by xiaodai 284 days ago | 7 comments

Transmission of Mental Disorders in Adolescent Peer Networks (jamanetwork.com)