1/ People outside of academia frequently cast "cargo cult" and "pseudo-science" aspirations towards social scientists *as if we haven't spilled the most ink on that very question.* It's extremely frustrating.
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2/ I don't know anyone in a social science grad program who didn't have massive doses of uncertainty and skepticism about [their particular method / subfield] deliberately and relentlessly injected into their minds from day 0.
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3/ Like, in my own field, I've read more explicit and damning critiques of computational social science than defenses.† My cohort debated and deliberated on it endlessly. It's not something we haven't considered. —— †Although, obviously, the work itself is an implicit defense.
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Replying to @generativist
In Communications we dedicated an entire semester class on essentially philosophy of science, falsifiability, and the different concepts of validation, just to get to the point of "yes we're a science god dammit"
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Replying to @Randy_Au
THAT'S WHAT IT FELT LIKE TO ME, TOO!
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Replying to @generativist
Comm as a discipline that only really started in the '40s, so we got the double whammy of "our field is stupid young AND we're a not a hard science" to add to our collective complex =x
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