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Artificiality in Social Sciences

The “sciences of the artificial” deal with synthesized things which may imitate natural things, which have functions and goals and which are usually discussed in terms of imperatives as well as descriptives. Imitation with computer is now usually termed simulation and is used to understand the imitated system (Simon, 1996). Artificiality has invaded science over the last thirty years, and physi...

Measures in Social Sciences

In the series Basic Concepts in Social Sciences a list of 79 concepts was given. The last part of that list consisted of 10 concepts concerning measures. Verbal definitions of these measures were considered as a preparation of mathematical definitions. In this paper these mathematical definitions will be discussed.

Knocking birds

Students on a Florida campus who strayed too close to a mockingbird nest found themselves under personal attack, according to a new study. A species of songbird has been shown to identify individual people in a crowd in order to target them aggressively if they pose a threat to their nests. In the new study, by Douglas Levey and colleagues at the University of Florida, Gainsville, in the Procee...