DARPA seeks more accurate social science

Concerned that social science models may not be accurately simulating the real world, the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency wants to test them.

DARPA's Ground Truth program will create a sort of war game for testing the validity of social science models.

"The program aims to use artificial, yet plausible, computer-based social-system simulations with built-in 'ground truth' causal rules as testbeds to validate the accuracy of various social science modeling methods," the agency said in a news release.

"Ground Truth will solicit one group of researchers to create social simulations with associated ground truth rules, known only to them, while challenging another group of researchers to create innovative teaming approaches to 'discover' the rules in those simulations," the agency said. "DARPA and its independent test and evaluation team will score the modeling teams' abilities to identify and predict causal ground truth in different simulations with different degrees of social complexity."

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