Humanities aren’t a science. Stop treating them like one. | Literally Psyched. Will math help determine the Illiad's historic accuracy? Image credit: G. V. Tischbein, public domain, Wikimedia Commons. There’s a certain allure to the elegance of mathematics, the precision of the hard sciences. That much is undeniable. Take, for instance, a recent paper that draws conclusions about the relative likelihood that certain stories are originally based in real-world events by looking at the (very complicated) mathematics of social networks.
But what is the analysis really doing? I’m skeptical of this kind of approach—and not at all sure that it adds anything to our understanding of, well, anything. Can we apply today's standards to analyzing "War and Peace"? I don’t mean to pick on this single paper. It’s one of the things that irked me about political science and that irks me about psychology—the reliance, insistence, even, on increasingly fancy statistics and data sets to prove any given point, whether it lends itself to that kind of proof or not. Who Does Facebook Think You Are Searching For? | thekeesh.com. UPDATE March 28, 2013: Many people have commented here and emailed me that it no longer works for you. I have made an update to fix the bookmarklet for those with Facebook Graph Search. You can get the new bookmarklet here Updated Facebook Friends Ranking Bookmarklet to Work with Graph Search ========================================== UPDATE February 14, 2012: Many people have noted that Facebook has changed stuff in the last several months and so the bookmarklet broke.
I have updated it to work on the new filename Facebook is using, and also to match the protocol you are browsing on. Drag this link to your bookmarks bar and click it when you are on Facebook. You may have to click it twice to work. Have you ever wondered how Facebook orders your search results? Well Facebook gives explicit numbers to the directed edges (connection going from you to your friend), about how much they think you are looking for this person. Note: This is really interesting, but may be embarrassing to you. Social Tagging Definition – What is Social Tagging? – Glossary of Web and Internet Terms. The Mundaneum Museum Honors the First Concept of the World Wide Web. The Filter Bubble. 20 choses à savoir sur les navigateurs et Internet.
IllustrationChristoph Niemann Auteurs/éditeursMin Li Chan, Fritz Holznagel, Michael Krantz Directeur du projetMin Li Chan & The Google Chrome Team ConceptionFiPaul Truong DéveloppementFi Remerciements tout particuliers à au format HTML5.