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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.
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'.