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[–] [email protected] 46 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (2 children)

You understand that the "hard sciences" are also affected by this crisis, correct? "Soft science" is a borderline meaningless term that stigmatizes entire fields of science to the sole benefit of anti-intellectuals.

Even when we take into consideration that the problem is currently worse in sciences like psychology, economics, sociology, etc.: "these results support the scientific status of the social sciences against claims that they are completely subjective, by showing that, when they adopt a scientific approach to discovery, they differ from the natural sciences only by a matter of degree." Social sciences are science.

You don't belong to "the hard sciences crowd"; you belong to a Sheldon Cooper-esque stereotype who devalues work you don't understand.

[–] [email protected] 26 points 1 day ago

Love the write-up, well done. These issues are huge, complex, fascinating, and depressing. It's always worth defending science, and you're right - this is basically the opposite of a conspiracy. Experts are actively screaming "something is wrong here!"

But, yeah, wow. What a shit take. Psychology is not science, from someone married to a psychologist? Soft sciences aren't science?

Correct me if I'm wrong, but Charles Darwin's science was as soft as it gets! He didn't have p-values, he had pretty birds with funky beaks. One of the most important scientists to ever live, and his masterpiece did not have a single quantitative model.

Just because psychology got irrationally stuck on Freud for so long doesn't mean it's not science. We all learn about Lamarckian inheritance and think it's goofy as shit, doesn't mean we dismiss the entire field of biology.

[–] [email protected] -4 points 23 hours ago

No, the difference in the replication crisis between the soft "sciences" and the hard is enormous. The soft are basically producing results equal to making coin tosses.