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> for scientific theories that actually have practical impacts, you don't have to just accept what scientists say on trust; you can look at their track record o

• pdonis 5y ago
  > What do you think of economic theories or theories behind psychotherapy? Not much. > Lot's of real world impact Because the theories have influence far out of proportion to their actual track record, yes. > low confidence in experiments, imo You can't run controlled experiments in either of those fields, so it's not so much a matter of low confidence in experiments as no ability to do them in the first place. There are some general patterns that can be picked out, but both disciplines deal with non-repeatable human situations that require non-repeatable human judgments to deal with them. Even to call them "sciences" is a stretch, except on a very general usage of the term "science" to basically mean "something people study".