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Re:Being kind to others is good for your health by bumby on Saturday December 19, 2020 @05:21PM (#25481811)
Social sciences do seem to have a reasonable background in statistics and experiment design based on those I’ve known. What makes you conclude they wouldn’t know the causation/correlation principle?
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Re:Being kind to others is good for your health by will_pseudonym on Saturday December 19, 2020 @06:33PM (#25482331)
The gigantic replication crisis in social science and medicine for a start.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Replication_crisis

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Re:Being kind to others is good for your health by bumby on Saturday December 19, 2020 @11:14PM (#25483801)
This is a very good point. But it makes me wonder how much is innate to the topic. If physics has as many confounding variables, I’m wondering if there would be equal difficulty in reproducibility
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