[Article] “Research questions that could have a big social impact, organised by discipline” by Arden Koehler, Howie Lempel

Seeking inspiration for research questions? Discover examples of open questions that could have a big social impact.

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Outline:

(00:13) About these research questions

(02:12) What are these lists based on?

(03:18) Biology and genetics

(04:59) Business and organisational development

(05:48) China studies

(07:11) Climate studies and earth sciences

(08:15) Cognitive science and neuroscience

(09:06) Economics

(11:02) Epidemiology, synthetic biology, and medicine

(12:07) Global Priorities Research

(14:31) History

(15:50) Law

(16:44) Machine learning, artificial intelligence, and computer science

(20:42) Philosophy

(22:57) Physics and astronomy

(23:57) Political science, international relations, and security studies

(25:59) Psychology

(27:26) Public policy

(28:12) Science policy/infrastructure and metascience

(29:39) Sociology

(30:52) Statistics and mathematics

(32:38) Sources

(35:12) Want to work on one of the research questions above?

(35:29) Thinking of going into academia?

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First published:
August 27th, 2020

Source:
https://80000hours.org/articles/research-questions-by-discipline

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