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 Originally Posted by MadMojoMonkey
So when I disagree with your assessment that economics is a science, that is not an implication that economics is useless... just different.
Eh it's mostly Rilla who does this. I mean, maybe he doesn't, but it certainly presents like he does.
I also think that you kind of misunderstand science it when you call economics a science.
Science is a way of thinking. Wherever you make hypotheses, predictions, experiment, assess, and repeat (or at least attempt to do so within whatever confines you're given), I call it science. Different types of experimentation yield much better results though. I'm fine with terms like "hard science" and "soft science" to describe the difference between ones that utilize highly controlled studies and ones that can't so much.
What I don't like is how common it is to call the hard sciences like what you learn in academia when getting a bachelors of science as science and not calling, well, everything else you study a science, like sociology. Sociology is technically a social science, but my point is that people don't think of it as a science, and THAT causes all sorts of problems where people think they can make up some bullshit and it be good sociology. Guesses are never acceptable answers in STEM but they are sometimes acceptable answers in just about everything else. It's ridiculous.
Frankly, it's silly that STEM is harder than everything else. There's no reason social sciences and humanities and business should be easier than the hard sciences, but they are easier because so many people treat them unscientifically.
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