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But work in social sciences will often be inherently harder to replicate due to, for example, groups of human beings being more complex than groups of proteins
by metta2uall 3y ago
But work in social sciences will often be inherently harder to replicate due to, for example, groups of human beings being more complex than groups of proteins - so there are a lot more variables, confounding factors, difficulties doing double-blind randomised trials, and so on...
- eru 3y agoYes, but that's why the companies like Google or Facebook spend so much time and effort on their social science experiments. Granted, they are mostly interested in a very small sliver of social science: 'how can you get people to directly or indirectly spend more time online and look at more ads'; but they are very, very interested in getting robust results that replicate well. They are also interested in figuring out how the results vary between different cultures and over time.