Jobs / Science and research / 19-3099.00
Social Scientists and Related Workers, All Other
All social scientists and related workers not listed separately.
- US jobs
- 37,100
- Median wage
- $101,110 a year
- Job family
- Science and research
Can agents do the work of social scientists and related workers, all other?
We read the evidence at the level of the job family, Science and research:
- Task levelPartialThin evidence. CORE-Bench asks agents to reproduce the results of published papers in computer science, social science, and medicine from the authors' code and data. Princeton's HAL team declared it solved in December 2025: Claude Code with Claude Opus 4.5 scored 95.5% after manual regrading. No benchmark in our collection tests new experiments or lab work.
- Project levelNot yetThin evidence. On PaperBench, where agents replicate machine learning papers from scratch, the best official result is 26.0% (o1, April 2025). On a small subset, ML PhDs scored 41.4% against o1's 26.6%. No newer official results exist, and no benchmark tests research projects in other sciences.
Benchmarks for this occupation
- 95.5%Claude Code + Claude Opus 4.5 (after manual regrading) · 3 Dec 2025Solved
Benchmarks for the job family
These cover work in science and research, not always this occupation's tasks.
Other job titles for this occupation (31)
Behavioral Scientist · Computational Linguist · Demographer · Developmental Psychologist · Director of Research · Ethnologist · Etymologist · Experimental Psychologist · Forensic Psychologist · Group Tester · Health Psychologist · Human Factors Scientist · Intelligence Research Specialist · Intelligence Specialist · Jury Consultant · Linguist · Mental Tester · Metaphysicist · Paleologist · Philologist · Psychometric Examiner · Psychometrician · Psychometrist · Psychotherapist · Public Health Policy Analyst · Research Director · Scientific Linguist · Social Psychologist · Social Sciences Research Scientist · Social Scientist · Sports Psychologist