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You need more rigorous inductive reasoning, and randomized trials This is usually impossible in social science research studying real-world phenomena that can'
by cynicalkane 14y ago
You need more rigorous inductive reasoning, and randomized trials
This is usually impossible in social science research studying real-world phenomena that can't be reproduced in the laboratory. It's a cargo cult attitude to think all science must look like an FDA drug application. Part of science is making do with the information you can collect.
- Retric 14y agoI think you have it backwards, economics is for the most part a cargo cult science because it pretends it's OK not to test hypothesis. Many people thought Phrenology was also scientific and they measured things and made predictions. However, if you apply the rules of Feynman's lecture they both fail. http://neurotheory.columbia.edu/~ken/cargo_cult.html http://neurotheory.columbia.edu/~ken/cargo_cult.html