In general, social science isn't very scientific. People generally just argue for what they believe, and use multi-syllabic words and some math occassionally to

In general, social science isn't very scientific. People generally just argue for what they believe, and use multi-syllabic words and some math occassionally to back up their arguments. "Mean" people tend to engender cults of personality. Cults of personality tend to focus on pleasing the leader rather than gettinf accurate reports through. As such, they can rarely organize enough accuracy to produce quality technical items. They can still 'succeed' on an uneven enough playing field. At the moment the playing field is massively tilted to make bets made by big players appear to be good ones at least until they get to the 'greatest fool' , currently the New York Stock Exchange. This process periodically corrects itself. It started to in 2008, but the Bush Administration replaced the helium in the bubble with more bubbles full of hydrogen. Maybe we can get up the cliff before they explode, maybe we can't.