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> I'm suggesting that social science isn't really a science. In reality and practice, no effort at science is 100% "really a science". But for "social science
by graycat 3y ago
> I'm suggesting that social science isn't really a science.
In reality and practice, no effort at science is 100% "really a science".
But for "social science":
(1) It can be a goal to have some of social science be real science.
(2) My wife's Ph.D. was in social science, and her dissertation was real science. The work started with a real question, in social science, gathered some real data, analyzed the data statistically, and came to some real conclusions. The conclusions were "new, correct, and significant". Some science? Yup.