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 (Thursday, 2nd week, Trinity 2021)
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
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Booking email: communications@spi.ox.ac.uk
Cost: FREE
Audience: Public
Editor: Lani Fukada