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I'd say that scientific fields being "opinion based" or forming around "mutually exclusive schools of thought" is a reaction to "the sheer dimensionality of the

by mafribe 11y ago

I'd say that scientific fields being "opinion based" or forming around "mutually exclusive schools of thought" is a reaction to "the sheer dimensionality of the problem combined with the difficulty of precise measurement". You see similar social phenomena in other fields with a measurement problem, for example programming language research ...

pron 11y ago
> You see similar social phenomena in other fields with a measurement problem, for example programming language research ... Touché! :) (although there's plenty of social science research that is much more empirically rigorous than PL research, and the certainty/evidence ratio is certainly higher in PL)