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I'm always dismayed at how easy it is to make an armchair dismissal of research in social sciences.

• cryoshon 9y ago
  if the social sciences held themselves to the standard of the hard sciences this problem couldn't exist
  • accountyaccount 9y ago
    I feel like if social sciences held themselves to that standard we'd end up with eugenics? There's some inherit benefit to recognizing that social sciences aren't strictly 'hard-logic' sciences.
    • menacingly 9y ago
      and I feel like worrying about the social consequences of the hard logic you uncover while studying social issues is a fundamentally flawed reasoning
• menacingly 9y ago
  It's probably because they can use the in-group primitives of the field to construct internally-consistent conclusions that are obviously false or silly to both casual observers and people who try to reproduce them systematically