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I agree that social science is different from the physical sciences, but that's not an excuse for the cargo cult science that dominates the field. Read Histori
by mspeiser 18y ago
I agree that social science is different from the physical sciences, but that's not an excuse for the cargo cult science that dominates the field. Read Historians' Fallacies for a view of how the social sciences should approach their work. (http://www.amazon.com/Historians-Fallacies-Toward-Historical-Thought/dp/0061315451 http://www.amazon.com/Historians-Fallacies-Toward-Historical...).
- ojbyrne 18y agoSocial sciences have well-developed methodologies for dealing with fallacies. http://www.amazon.com/Experimental-Quasi-Experimental-Designs-Generalized-Inference/dp/0395615569 http://www.amazon.com/Experimental-Quasi-Experimental-Design... is the bible, and is mostly taught to doctoral students. But chances are Mr. Collins has never heard of it, since he's in business faculty. But he might have, and might actually have a solid research design. Just that its hard to tell from the book. The practice of management in the real world is full of imperfections, because its about people, and people are imperfect.