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Nice to see Sokal's name come up, he's the first person I thought of when the article outlined the obvious bullshit use of advanced maths in a psychology paper.
by codeulike 9y ago
Nice to see Sokal's name come up, he's the first person I thought of when the article outlined the obvious bullshit use of advanced maths in a psychology paper. It's amazing how far stuff like this can get within a field before someone gets round to calling it out.
- truculation 9y agoAnother physicist, David Deutsch, also does a good job in The Beginning of Infinity, Chapter 12 'A Physicist's History of Bad Philosophy'. I can't do it justice here but part of the problem is that we don't understand what 'happiness' is yet and therefore it's a problem how to measure it, let alone self-report it.