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But math builds directly upon other work: the proof for Fermat's Last Theorem is a house of cards, if any one of those various conjectures and proofs was prov
by Ensorceled 3y ago
But math builds directly upon other work: the proof for Fermat's Last Theorem is a house of cards, if any one of those various conjectures and proofs was proven false it would all come crashing down.
So, math papers are read, like blue prints, for building on top of them.
Psychology papers are, apparently, not the basis for anything.
- twosdai 3y agoMath can be structured and proven verifiably true or false. Things are labeled as conjectures when it's unknown if it's true in all cases. In less formal fields (all other scientific fields) there are more unknowns since experimentation failures cause issues. As the scale of the experiments' unknowns increase so does the difficulty for reproduction etc... Psychology, sociology, economics and other high level scientific forms have so many unknowns that it's extreamly difficult to verify if a claim is scientifically true so its not surprising to me that fraud is easier in these fields than others.