Article ID: CBB751955814

Digital Humanism (2018)

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Much history of psychology presumes a discordance between its humanistic methods and the focus on rigorous statistical reasoning that is typical of the field it studies. However, the conditions of abundant data typical of digital humanities tend to relax the constraints of tests of significance and to allow greater freedom to try out alternative interpretations within the frame of a single study. At the same time, the elusiveness of rigorous standardization within a very large database, especially if it stretches over wide spaces or many decades, may be seen to demand meticulous source criticism of a sort that has more often been associated with the humanities than with quantitative science. There is even a tendency for the data itself to drift away from its usual function as a means of research and to become itself an object of study, inspiring reflection on how the tools and concepts of a field like psychology may be evolving in response to new constraints or ambitions. (PsycINFO Database Record (c) 2018 APA, all rights reserved) (Source: journal abstract)

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Authors & Contributors
Kranke, Nina
Siibak, Andra
Sarah Ehlers
Jessica Pykett
Thatcher, Jim
Flis, Ivan
Concepts
Data collection; methods
Data analysis
Digital humanities
Psychology
Text mining
Technoscience; science and technology studies
Time Periods
21st century
20th century
19th century
20th century, late
Modern
Enlightenment
Places
United States
Ecuador
Germany
Institutions
United States. Census Bureau
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