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>Scientists pump out a lot of studies that are just doing stats on public data sets. May be I didn't make myself clear. I only meant to include actual experime
by forcry 5y ago
>Scientists pump out a lot of studies that are just doing stats on public data sets.
May be I didn't make myself clear. I only meant to include actual experiments, in the context. So it will only involve procedures that include collecting raw data from nature.
Mostly agree with the rest of your comment.
- native_samples 5y agoYes, this gets into the (very important!) topic of what exactly the definition of science is. Consider that the normal 'street' definition of people doing experiments on nature would mean the following fields aren't scientific: 1. Computer science 2. Economics 3. Climatology I'd personally be fine with all three being considered un-scientific or even defunded, even though I quite enjoy reading computer science papers. It's more of an engineering discipline in my view and the attempts to make it seem scientific mostly just obfuscate things. And most people would be fine with economics not being a science. The live wire is of course climatology. These people don't do experiments, they just compile data and analyze it. Good luck convincing people that climatology isn't a science, even though you may be in the right about it!