"After you choose which subjective preference to optimize for, you can definitely employ the scientific method to try to parse that further, but that comes afte

"After you choose which subjective preference to optimize for, you can definitely employ the scientific method to try to parse that further, but that comes after the preference:) " I think I can apply the scientific method also to preferences. Meaning if it really makes me happy, to be accepted in certain circles where the conditions are bad shoes, then so be it. But personally I decided years ago, that this is not the case for me.