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Re:Notes from a Sun Tzu Skeptic (2019) by eru on Tuesday April 11, 2023 @06:13AM (#35523023)
> There are no universal laws that always hold true in all situations.

You could still apply statistics. That's what people who breed animals or plants do. Every organism is different and individual, too.

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Re:Notes from a Sun Tzu Skeptic (2019) by chaostheory on Tuesday April 11, 2023 @10:58AM (#35526078)
I was referring to social studies. Biology on the other hand is a real science. A science has laws.
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Re:Notes from a Sun Tzu Skeptic (2019) by eru on Tuesday April 11, 2023 @10:31PM (#35534359)
Not sure I buy that.

There's plenty of studies in economics (especially micro-economics) that have statistical laws just like biology does. Similar for psychology. And even for war:

It's hard to run controlled experiments at the largest scales, but there have been plenty of experiments and studies at smaller scales. And some of them yielded statistical 'laws'.

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