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[–] [email protected] 7 points 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago) (1 children)

That's pretty much where I was going. What are soft sciences supposed to do when experimental methods are either impractical or unethical? Give up?

If anything, fields like physics are in a privileged position where they can do the scientific method to the letter. Acting snooty about it is simply insulting and unhelpful.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 6 months ago (1 children)

What are soft sciences supposed to do when experimental methods are either impractical or unethical?

Same thing astronomy did.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago) (1 children)

Astronomy has roughly a 400 year head start on most of these. Thousands of years if you're counting astrology (which was good observations mixed together with nonsense).

[–] [email protected] 1 points 6 months ago (1 children)

That's irrelevant. Astronomy and polsci can both only test their hypotheses through observation.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago)

And Astronomy has had much, much longer to make those observations. They can also gather potentially millions of data points instead of five.