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Re:As religious faith has declined, ideological intensity ha... by amatic on Sunday June 13, 2021 @06:20AM (#27491347)
> for scientific theories that actually have practical impacts, you don't have to just accept what scientists say on trust; you can look at their track record of correct predictions

What do you think of economic theories or theories behind psychotherapy? Lot's of real world impact, low confidence in experiments, imo

Re:As religious faith has declined, ideological intensity ha... by pdonis on Tuesday June 15, 2021 @12:49AM (#27511421)
> What do you think of economic theories or theories behind psychotherapy?

Not much.

> Lot's of real world impact

Because the theories have influence far out of proportion to their actual track record, yes.

> low confidence in experiments, imo

You can't run controlled experiments in either of those fields, so it's not so much a matter of low confidence in experiments as no ability to do them in the first place. There are some general patterns that can be picked out, but both disciplines deal with non-repeatable human situations that require non-repeatable human judgments to deal with them. Even to call them "sciences" is a stretch, except on a very general usage of the term "science" to basically mean "something people study".