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You can't test hypothesis with no control group and no way to falsify theories. Comparing economics to physics is absurd.
by dreamdu5t 14y ago
You can't test hypothesis with no control group and no way to falsify theories. Comparing economics to physics is absurd.
- jrogers65 14y agoThere has been a silent revolution in the last few decades which has resulted in a new branch of mathematics called Chaos Theory. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chaos_theory http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chaos_theory It happens to be quite capable of making a science out of traditionally difficult to understand subjects such as economics, psychology and sociology. https://docs.google.com/viewer?a=v&q=cache:naTCJqLey4QJ:web.cenet.org.cn/upfile/41985.pdf+&hl=en&gl=uk&pid=bl&srcid=ADGEESgpq6siYpCHud7iNcHpe-jcDkFz48wVeYhRvfLywy2ZT1lwIXOS5gxsM5oho8JB2r5I71YboHxl7_iADgqtMorjEU-cO_GLE3dcPkWDjIRzgRosjqx4f5mKg4upwCL1sb1tKvGf&sig=AHIEtbQLZht8a0gIPDIY57mbae1jtGXLCA https://docs.google.com/viewer?a=v&q=cache:naTCJqLey4QJ:... The comparison would have been absurd last century, not so much today.
- fijal 14y agoHow about astrophysics? Climate science? We don't always get a whole lot of experiments to do, sometimes one.