The plural of anecdote *is* data. It's kind of a pedantic point I'm making, but it's annoying when people refuse to entertain something simply because it's based on a collection of anecdotes. What are scientists doing when they publish? They're reporting their experience. 1/6
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well said. economics, psychology, political science, and sociology are not sciences, so why are they called social sciences?
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I can't tell if you're endorsing that point of view or questioning it. I imagine one answer would be that the social sciences are "soft science", although I have yet to hear a comprehensive and precise criteria for distinguishing "hard" from "soft" science.
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um... you can't distinguish soft and hard eh?
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Hey now, you promised you wouldn't bring this up in public. "Maybe I was too quick to delete those spam emails about erection enhancement. One of them might just be from a misunderstood scientific genius." - Mark Corrigan
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