Nevertheless, some 11, 000 experimental studies are known in the social sciences (compared with over 250, 000 in the medical literature).

ECONOMIST: Social science

The idea of experimental evidence is not quite as new to the social sciences as sneering natural scientists might believe.

ECONOMIST: Social science

His experimental research on cognition and language won the Troland Award from the National Academy of Sciences and two prizes from the American Psychological Association.

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Thomas Cook, a pioneer of controlled experiments in education at Northwestern University, in Chicago, suggests that much of the opposition to experimental evaluation stems from a common philosophical malaise among social scientists, who doubt the validity of the natural sciences, and therefore reject the potential of knowledge derived from controlled experiments.

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