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to be any scientist math is critical. We should be very dubious of "science" in which there is no formal proof nor statistics to support ideas.
by nsonha 5y ago
to be any scientist math is critical. We should be very dubious of "science" in which there is no formal proof nor statistics to support ideas.
- UK-Al05 5y agoI don't think most sciences use "formal" proof. Maths & Computer science do.
- dgb23 5y agoMicroeconomics uses formal logic and deduction, typically given assumptions and definitions around rational actors. I’m a layman but my partner is studying economics and I help her out a bit with logic and math stuff when it comes up, but I don’t know how prevalent these concepts are beyond academics.
- myWindoonn 5y agoEvery hard science uses statistics, a formal branch of pure maths, in order to justify why its models are decent at predicting real-world phenomena. The proofs usually flow backwards from how you're imagining; statisticians create new proofs which put constraints on modeling, and those constraints are used to rule out bogus scientific results.
- UK-Al05 5y agoYes, but the scientists aren't trained to create those proofs. But they use them.