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I win. I have a maths degree in Arts.Clive Durdle wrote:Who says they are? I have a social studies degree in Arts.
CdesignProponentsist wrote:Where social science can provide hypothesis, deduce what the necessary implications of that hypothesis would be, then measure or experiment to see if observation matches that, it is science.
So yes, there is plenty of science in social science.
Rumraket wrote:CdesignProponentsist wrote:Where social science can provide hypothesis, deduce what the necessary implications of that hypothesis would be, then measure or experiment to see if observation matches that, it is science.
So yes, there is plenty of science in social science.
Pretty much this.
CdesignProponentsist wrote:Where social science can provide hypothesis, deduce what the necessary implications of that hypothesis would be, then measure or experiment to see if observation matches that, it is science.
So yes, there is plenty of science in social science.
I'll join in by asking for examples.Thomas Eshuis wrote:Also you seem to be unaware that science works exactly as you just described: a theory is derived out of the available data.
tuco wrote:Quality of scientific research, as in: how precise predictions of a theory are?
tuco wrote:Its like asking if astrophysicists can help with digital marketing, in other words cool story bro.
To me it comes down to strength of prediction, for a theory and also science, unless someone will convince me otherwise which is not likely.
Scientific makes social sciences the scientific method, this is definition. What makes them so called soft sciences is weakness of predictions and questionable interpretations.
What is the big question here?
Norsely wrote:The social sciences are constantly seeking good ways to measure behaviors and decision making - good design, strong predictive values, reversely engineerable, etc. - since that's what we're talking about here. The last I checked, some of the most interesting attempts toward the lofty goal of normalizing social behaviors into mathematically precise work are being made by people like the Wolfram people, santafe.edu, and Bruce Bueno de Mesquita; rather than playing grab-ass with anecdotal or insufficiently persuasive examples, there's a short list of people and research groups with which to become familiar, and so impress the living bejeezus out of the next social scientist you chat up at a cocktail party.
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