Comment on Polisci

• exocrinous@startrek.website ⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

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

  Same thing astronomy did.

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  • frezik@midwest.social ⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

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

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    • exocrinous@startrek.website ⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

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

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      • frezik@midwest.social ⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

        And Astronomy has had much, much longer to make those observations.

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