Selection Bias and Social Science History

In: Social science history: the official journal of the Social Science History Association, Band 44, Heft 3, S. 411-416

Abstract

AbstractHistorians and social scientists routinely, and inevitably, rely on sources that are unrepresentative of the past. The articles in this special issue of the journal illustrate the widespread prevalence of selection bias in historical sources, and the ways in which historians negotiate this challenge to reach useful conclusions from valuable, if imperfect sources.