Anecdotally, when I was taking Advanced Econometrics as an undergrad, the class was being audited by a professor in the Economics department that, in their educ

Anecdotally, 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.