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IB Theory of Knowledge Topic 1.8 Area of Knowledge: the Human Sciences (SL/HL) covers syllabus content. Use these Notes to review the topic, practise exam questions, and move between notes, videos, flashcards, and lessons where available.
1.8.1 What the human sciences are
1.8.2 The disciplines and their boundaries
1.8.3 Studying people: the reflexivity problem
1.8.4 Operationalising a concept
1.8.5 Experiments on people
1.8.6 Surveys, interviews and self-report
1.8.7 Sampling and representativeness
1.8.8 Correlation, causation and confounds
1.8.9 Statistical significance and what it does not mean
1.8.10 The rationality assumption
1.8.11 Behavioural economics and its lessons
1.8.12 Prediction in the human sciences
1.8.13 Comparing the human and the natural sciences
1.8.14 Replication in the human sciences
1.8.15 The ethics of studying people
1.8.16 Assessment bridge: the human sciences in essay titles