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There's a big difference between science and social science. Or science and medicine for that matter. They are different domains that require different models o
by kriops 4y ago
There's a big difference between science and social science. Or science and medicine for that matter. They are different domains that require different models of reasoning, which come with their respective sets of limitations.
There's a reason you don't see a crisis in e.g. physics, where their hypotheses are leaps and bounds more testable.
- onos 4y agoThis failure rate suggests a reason the social sciences don’t “lead anywhere”: If you try to build a theorem off of two earlier results, but these each only have probability p of being right, then the chance your new theorem is correct goes like p^2. For small p this means deductions based on combining results are very small.
- onos 4y agoThis failure rate suggests a reason the social sciences don’t “lead anywhere”: If you try to build a theorem off of two earlier results, but these each only have probability p of being right, then the chance your new theorem is correct goes like p^2. For small p this means the chance that a deduction is correct is very small.