Sociology is the sorry failure of the pretense of the attempt to find analytical solutions over interactions of large numbers of individuals
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was thinking about this recently
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But I think the root cause of the "replication crisis" in social science is the fact that the core nature of human existence is mess.
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It does sound suspiciously romantic, but irreducible complexity is a thing. Probably not in all relevant social domains, though.
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one theory I have for this is that sociology's subjects *know* about theories about them, you can't really theorize in peace
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it's a total mess since you end up changing your molecules' behavior by talking about them
nah, dampening and saturation effects should kick in after very few iterations!