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Prediction of phenomena in a repeatable fashion is the hallmark of all good science. Very few of what pass for sciences today in our world, save for the scienc
by imperio59 6y ago
Prediction of phenomena in a repeatable fashion is the hallmark of all good science.
Very few of what pass for sciences today in our world, save for the sciences of chemistry and large parts of physics, have achieved such precision of prediction in the laws they have been able to come up with to describe the universe.
Parts of Medicine largely fit the bill but other parts aren't yet that far along.
Psychology and psychiatry are at best a crap shoot and do not have solutions that work for all, in a repeatable fashion.
Economics and social "sciences" are at best a set of theories with varying degrees of merit or applicability but are mostly a set of opinions and authorities who like to argue with each other about their own pet theory.
It's amazing how far humanity has come thanks to the advance of true science but it's important to not forget we have a long ways to go still.
- skizm 6y agoYou say that but the fact that dark patterns in games, apps, websites, and advertising are so effective would seem to contradict this. Also, a psychiatrist is an MD and completely different that a psychologist who usually has a PhD and is actually running experiments. That said, psychology does have a repeatability problem for sure. The sheer volume of papers submitted is so much noise that picking out the signal is a hard problem with no good solution at the moment.
- Robotbeat 6y agoScience is about the idea that ideas are tested by experiment (or more generally, some objective empirical validation ). Economics, while traditionally a scene of some combination of occasional mathematical rigor combined with ideological opinion, has as of late been going through an empirical renaissance of late. Economics is changing.