SOCIAL SCIENCES:
Making Social Science Data More Useful
Wayne Kondro
OTTAWA--Worried that the social sciences
aren't keeping up with other disciplines in exploiting new technologies,
practitioners and their governments have begun to take steps to correct
the problem. This month the 29-nation Organization for Economic Cooperation
and Development held the first of four international workshops aimed at
"reinventing" the social sciences to make them more empirical and relevant
to policy-makers. And last month the U.S. National Science Foundation funded
six projects ranging from creating an international integrated database
for census information to a data center for scientists using functional
magnetic resonance imaging to study cognitive processes.
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