Making Social Sciences More Scientific

Beyond Regression contrasts the predominance of statistics in today's social sciences and predominance of quantitatively predictive logical models in physics. It shows how to construct predictive models and gives social science examples. The book also shows how to use and report statistical analysis in more informative ways. This includes a shift to symmetric regression, instead of Ordinary Least Squares, which systematically underestimates the slopes our eyes (correctly) see. Beyond Regression is useful to students who wish to learn the basics of the scientific method and to all those researchers who look for ways to do better social science.