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Re:Humanities aren't a science and shouldn't be treated like... by rdcurd on Friday June 05, 2020 @11:36PM (#23436609)
I think most, if not all self-respecting social science scholars would resent being lumped in with economists
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Re:Humanities aren't a science and shouldn't be treated like... by gnicholas on Saturday June 06, 2020 @12:59AM (#23436943)
Which fields are you referring to? I think of psychology as perhaps more rigorous, but none of the others (sociology, anthropology, political science).
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Re:Humanities aren't a science and shouldn't be treated like... by watwut on Saturday June 06, 2020 @02:17AM (#23437216)
Sociologists often complains that economists don't bother reading established peer reviewed sociology and opt for own guesswork based on own intuitive observations whenever they attempt to incorporate sociology-lite into their writings.
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Re:Humanities aren't a science and shouldn't be treated like... by FranzFerdiNaN on Saturday June 06, 2020 @10:49AM (#23439566)
Anthropology contains biological anthtopology and archaeology, both of which are a lot more like the physical sciences than psychology.
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Re:Humanities aren't a science and shouldn't be treated like... by dash2 on Sunday June 07, 2020 @04:14AM (#23445694)
FWIW experimental economics results seem to be more reproducible than psychology.[1] Though this is a bit of a pot-kettle blackness contest.

[1] https://science.sciencemag.org/content/351/6280/1433

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