Science & Social Values: Values in Modelling
YouTube,
Mar 29, 2021
This is a nice series of short videos on the influence of social values on models in science (there's also a single 17-minute version that plays them all together). This content is essential for any real understanding of how science works today, how it takes into account what we think is true and what we think is important, and how these values impact what science tells us about the world. Asking questions about these values doesn't invalidate science, nor does it commit us to full-on relativism. And we need to know, when evaluating (say) education research, what counts as evidence, what counts as success, and what assumptions about research itself are being made by the authors. The videos were produced by the Peer Models Network, which "allows users to directly access models on the cloud and interact with them."
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