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Re:Results: Finland’s Basic Income Experiment Help Us Build ... by swebs on Monday May 11, 2020 @07:11AM (#23140882)
There are certainly plenty of fields that have a these problems and are vulnerable to be politically driven. I'd say the further toward the "soft" sciences you go, the more you're able to manipulate results to fit certain viewpoints. 538 has a nice little demo showing off the problem.

https://projects.fivethirtyeight.com/p-hacking/

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Re:Results: Finland’s Basic Income Experiment Help Us Build ... by KittenInABox on Monday May 11, 2020 @07:27AM (#23140968)
Is CS a soft science? There’s a ton of massaging in machine learning IME.
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Re:Results: Finland’s Basic Income Experiment Help Us Build ... by swebs on Monday May 11, 2020 @07:48AM (#23141094)
Yes, some branches definitely. Especially human-computer interaction. Other branches like discrete math or algorithm analysis are impossible to fudge. Machine learning is somewhere in the middle.
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Re:Results: Finland’s Basic Income Experiment Help Us Build ... by travisporter on Monday May 11, 2020 @08:27AM (#23141337)
Awesome site! Sadly p hacking is also a problem in many fields not just the soft sciences. It’s a bit of a dig at science but is it a fundamental flaw of the scientific method?
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