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Re:Unsolved problems in economics by slothtrop on Tuesday May 17, 2022 @11:18AM (#31412011)
You've just eliminated all social sciences, by your metric of "reliably".

edit: your take-away from this should be that you're mis-defining science.

edit2: you all forgot that medical and nutritional science has a reproducibility crisis, it's no less "science" for it. Add to the fact, the notion that nothing is reproducible in Economics is false. See for example: https://www.caltech.edu/about/news/famous-economics-experime... , https://www.science.org/doi/10.1126/science.aaf0918

Re:Unsolved problems in economics by ur-whale on Tuesday May 17, 2022 @12:19PM (#31412898)
> You've just eliminated all social sciences

Because they're indeed not sciences.

They call themselves that to attract funding.

Predictive power and reproducibility are defining characteristics of sciences.

Social "sciences" have neither and therefore aren't sciences.

Re:Unsolved problems in economics by slothtrop on Tuesday May 17, 2022 @01:21PM (#31413748)
reproducibility has improved over time as well - https://pubs.aeaweb.org/doi/pdfplus/10.1257/jel.20171350
Re:Unsolved problems in economics by guerrilla on Tuesday May 17, 2022 @11:37AM (#31412273)
Absolutely.

> edit: your take-away from this should be that you're mis-defining science.

No thanks.