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Re:Humanities aren't a science and shouldn't be treated like... by catgary on Friday June 05, 2020 @10:38PM (#23436335)
I’m not even sure the paper he starts off criticizing is that problematic - it sounds like it’s basically a quantitative study of various tropes in fiction and comparing it to real data.
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Re:Humanities aren't a science and shouldn't be treated like... by Barrin92 on Saturday June 06, 2020 @12:06AM (#23436755)
>comparing it to real data

given that the study goes back as far as the creation of the Illiad I have serious trouble believing that we have high fidelity data about the social graph of individuals at that point in history.

Pretty much all we have is second-hand accounts to begin with which may themselves be as unreliable as fiction. So on that particular case, I fully agree with the author. That's not actually scientific.

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