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[–] exocrinous@startrek.website 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.

[–] frezik@midwest.social 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).

[–] exocrinous@startrek.website 1 points 6 months ago (1 children)

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

[–] frezik@midwest.social 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.