imagine how hard social science would be if people had complex, ambiguous inner lives that weren’t capable of being captured by simple survey instruments
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The most valuable lesson, that most folks never get to, I found in a first year class in mechanical physics at MIT: That lesson: "margin of error". Fuzziness of reality is a thing whether you're measuring your height at different times of day and positions, or quantum particles.
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I'm not denying that a ruler is "more precise" than a questionnaire, either. I'm just saying that measuring things is always hard, and this is not a unique problem for the social sciences.
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