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Yes, which I believe is why people rightly dismiss social science, as not being scientific at all.
by yucky 4y ago
Yes, which I believe is why people rightly dismiss social science, as not being scientific at all.
- orwin 4y agoWhat is the science process that social scientists do not follow? Hypothesis refutability? Replication? (probably their weakest point btw) I mean, in this thread i've read about successes in sociology and economics, probably the most math-based social sciences, but i'd say linguistics are probably the second most successfull science in the last 40 years, and that's considered a social science. History have also made a lot of new discoveries recently (by criticizing older works and getting past them). Archeology have slow successes, but still, we understand Neandertal way, way better than we did ten years ago.
- einpoklum 4y ago> the most math-based social sciences Please do not confuse "with papers using math which is cavalierly assumed to model reality well" with "math-based".