*FINAL REMINDER --- Applied Statistics Workshop TOMORROW (10/24) at 12 noon*
*Lunch provided --- All are welcome *
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Dear workshop community,
We will convene for the Applied Statistics Workshop (Gov 3009) tomorrow on
Wednesday (10/24).
The speaker is* Tyler J. VanderWeele *(Harvard School of Public Health) who
will be presenting his work "On the Promotion of Human Flourishing, with
Methodological Reflections" (paper link 1
<http://www.pnas.org/content/pnas/114/31/8148.full.pdf>; paper link 2
<https://cdn1.sph.harvard.edu/wp-content/uploads/sites/603/2018/10/OutcomeWideTemplate.pdf>
)
*Where:* CGIS Knafel Building, Room K354 (see this link
<https://map.harvard.edu/?bld=04471&level=9> for directions).
*When: *Wednesday, October 24th at 12 noon - 1:30 pm.
*Abstract:* Many empirical studies throughout the social and biomedical
sciences focus only on very narrow outcomes such as income, or a single
specific disease state, or a measure of positive affect. Human well-being
or flourishing, however, consists in a much broader range of states and
outcomes, certainly including mental and physical health, but also
encompassing happiness and life satisfaction, meaning and purpose,
character and virtue, and close social relationships. The empirical
literature from longitudinal, experimental, and quasiexperimental studies
is reviewed in attempt to identify major determinants of human flourishing,
broadly conceived. Measures of human flourishing are proposed. Discussion
is given to the implications of a broader conception of human flourishing,
and of the research reviewed, for policy, and for future research in the
biomedical and social sciences. Discussion will also be given to the
methodological implications of attempts to study numerous outcomes at once
and to a proposed movement towards outcome-wide longitudinal designs for
causal inference.
*All are welcome! Lunch is provided! *
Best,
Connor Jerzak
Applied Statistics Workshop -- Graduate Student Coordinator
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