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Haven't you also just described Economics? (I frequently describe economics as soothsayers for the rich, telling them what they want to hear, but dressed up in
by jgeada 3y ago
Haven't you also just described Economics? (I frequently describe economics as soothsayers for the rich, telling them what they want to hear, but dressed up in technicallese and mathematics to make it appear as hard science, when it is far from it)
- next_xibalba 3y agoEcon is definitely closer to psychology and sociology than it is to physics or chemistry on the "not science <--> science" spectrum. Econ is at least more quantitative and relies heavily on data (as compared to philosophy, <X> studies, etc). But obv experimentation is more difficult.
- polka_haunts_us 3y agoAnecdotally, when I was taking Advanced Econometrics as an undergrad, the class was being audited by a professor in the Economics department that, in their education through PhD, had never actually learned any quantitative anaylsis. So there are definitely people out there that are getting by on the fact they can make their ideas sound good convincing enough to pass a journal's review board and a tenure committee. So yes, very much a social science.