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Bayesian Reasoning for Qualitative Social Science
Please note that registrations close on 4 May, 2021
This talk will introduce the basic principles of Bayesian reasoning, which provides a modern, rigorous, and intuitive methodology to help social scientists make better inferences from qualitative, case-study evidence. Bayesianism provides prescriptions for rational reasoning under uncertainty, with the goal of making well-justified assessments about how strongly the information in hand supports a given explanation over rival hypotheses. The talk will draw on coauthored work with A.E. Charman (UC Berkeley, Dept. of Physics), Social Inquiry and Bayesian Inference: Rethinking Qualitative Research (forthcoming, CUP) and will include illustrations from the author’s research on the politics of progressive taxation in Latin America.
Date:
6 May 2021, 16:00
Venue:
Zoom- See below for registration details
Speaker:
Dr Tasha Fairfield (London School of Economics & Political Science)
Organising department:
Department of Social Policy and Intervention
Organiser:
Dr Mark Fransham (University of Oxford)
Organiser contact email address:
communications@spi.ox.ac.uk
Host:
Dr Mark Fransham (University of Oxford)
Part of:
Modern methods in social policy and intervention research
Booking required?:
Required
Booking url:
https://forms.office.com/Pages/ResponsePage.aspx?id=G96VzPWXk0-0uv5ouFLPkXU22tvMWYpBtVi0MQ2zuK9UMVZUUENVWlJYNkxRQk41NDUwV1hSSTRaVy4u
Booking email:
communications@spi.ox.ac.uk
Cost:
FREE
Audience:
Public
Editor:
Lani Fukada
