CRM/LAW C100 Lecture 3: C100 Lecture 3
11 May 2017
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Prelude to assessing the prevalence of domestic violence: the issue of measurement oxford. Dictionaries 2016 international word of the year: post-truth. Post-truth it means, relating to or denoting circumstances in which objective facts are less in uential in shaping public opinion than appeals to emotion and personal beliefs. Post doesn"t mean after. it means truth (with a t ) is irrelevant - think beyond truth. It means believing something that feels true, even if it isn"t supported by fact. Previous international word of the year close in meaning was truthiness, designated as such by merriam-webster in 2006. It means believing in something that feels true, even if it isn"t supported by fact . Post-truth and truthiness both disregard objective facts. Social and behavioral science relies on objective facts. Answering this question requires a careful assessment of sources of info and the derivation of objective measures.
