1/ Hi #SocialScience twitter,
Has anyone studied this phenomenon? @AstroKatie is the first physicist I've seen whose had it in her FAQs. But, it's a common enough complaint that I've heard it from other physicists, and I'm not one.https://twitter.com/AstroKatie/status/995064657713901568 …
5/ We social scientists -- quantitative or otherwise -- are not afforded much in the way of clean experiments. Social systems are tangled, often inextricably. But, because people live within this system, it's a short hop to assuming generalizable knowledge.
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6/ Armchair psychology, sociology, economics, political science, and anthropology is everywhere. Of course, given the complexity and limitations, maybe an outsider does have a better (albeit not high) chance of path-breaking in these disciplines compared to physics.
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7/ But, I think it demonstrates why social
#scicomm is so paradoxically challenging. Extensive subjective experiences gives rise to lots of local realities, making it easy to reject discordant ones. After all, people come up with back-of-napkin alternatives to dark matter.Show this thread -
Adding this related thread. (I can't remember if I saw it before or after writing this one, as sometimes happens with twitter inspiration.)https://twitter.com/yungneocon/status/995064292457238529 …
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