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Pages 57-60

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From page 57...
... • Suggest rough timelines about where a body of research can be in 3 years or 10 years: Fein encouraged contributors to identify r ­ ealistic development stages, barriers to progress, and priority areas where new knowledge is needed.
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From page 58...
... However, he pointed out that social scientists who carry out research on national security and international relations were underrepresented. These researchers spend a lot of time grappling with research challenges, he noted, such as ecological inference issues and drawing causal inferences from observational data.
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From page 59...
... drew attention to other disciplines that should be considered in the SBS Decadal Survey: humansystems integration, quantum computing, computational social science, and operations research. She pointed out that the SBS Decadal Survey will have practical value beyond intelligence analysis since this analysis informs policy-making, strategy, and operational design.
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... Charlie Rogan (Artis International) observed that researchers in the Minerva Program often do not feel connected to the policy community in the same vein as the stated goal of the SBS Decadal Survey.
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