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We are at the age of engineering human behavior and societal engineering is in the realm of STEM. social science is like alchemy in an age where chemistry alre

• jyounker 2y ago
  Every time you interview a user or set up a survey to determine customer preferences, you're using techniques developed from social sciences.
  • morkalork 2y ago
    All the video games and online gambling trying to maximize micro transactions and revenue are too.
    • blitzar 2y ago
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  • dgfitz 2y ago
    It is an interesting point. However, I can do these things without studying social science. Basically what you described is "talking to people" and "gathering information"
  • tomjen3 2y ago
    Mostly you are doing statistics, which is math. Social science (when it is the good thing) also uses statistics to get answers to questions.
• jampekka 2y ago
  > We are at the age of engineering human behavior and societal engineering is in the realm of STEM. We are definitely not. I'm saying that as someone researching how to use computational methods to model human behavior. We know very little about human behavior/mind/brain or society at that level.
• naijaboiler 2y ago
  This has to be most arrogantly ignorant statement I have read in a long long long while. I just have to imagine this was sarcasm.