Danny Katz

Research Areas

Daniel Katz is a PhD student in the Department of Education at the University of California, Santa Barbara. Daniel’s research considers the ways statistics are used in the social sciences, especially for the purpose of measurement, and the ethics of their use, therein. Particularly, he is interested in how the conceptualization of the properties that we claim to measure in the social sciences correspond to the statistical tools typically used to measure them. His other interests include investigating the role that language plays in conceptualizing measurement in education and psychology, studying philosophy to help clarify research aims and claims, and psychometric models, broadly.