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It is also fascinating because all EHR programs require that we hire social scientists to evaluate our programs.  In informal science education (whatever its named now), we are being encouraged--if not quite required--to integrate research about learning into each of our projects.

So, if the principal problem of social science is the lack of predictive value, that would call into question the value of these evaluations.

I am assuming that the learning sciences are included among the social sciences?


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On Jun 25, 2012, at 2:40 PM, Maria Mortati wrote:

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>>> I think the question of what's really science is also an important one for science museums to consider.
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> Yup, in practice "the sciences" vs "social science" are very different. 
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> That said, I find it intriguing that social science wouldn't be considered a factor in any NSF endeavor when all science is a human and therefore implicitly social endeavor.
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