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Selection Bias and Social Science History
- Social Science History
- Cambridge University Press
- Volume 44, Number 3, Fall 2020
- pp. 411-416
- Article
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Abstract:
Historians 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.