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Your entire post is a series of sociological assertions about academics and engineers without scientific evidence. I'm sure the irony was intentional.
by danharaj 11y ago
Your entire post is a series of sociological assertions about academics and engineers without scientific evidence. I'm sure the irony was intentional.
- AnthonyMouse 11y agoThat entire post can be reduced to two core assertions: 1) Details matter in engineering because products will actually be manufactured according to those details and if the details are wrong then planes would fall out of the sky. (Which we know they rarely do.) 2) Details don't matter in social theory because practitioners don't use academic theories to make policy. The theories can't be tested because they aren't used. Most social science "theories" are therefore a hypothesis without an experiment. The only statement about people or social behavior is that engineers put their theories into practice with more frequency and rigor than sociologists, which is empirically true.