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minus-square@[email protected]linkfedilinkEnglish1•1 month ago What are soft sciences supposed to do when experimental methods are either impractical or unethical? Same thing astronomy did.
minus-square@[email protected]linkfedilinkEnglish1•edit-21 month agoAstronomy 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).
minus-square@[email protected]linkfedilinkEnglish1•1 month agoThat’s irrelevant. Astronomy and polsci can both only test their hypotheses through observation.
minus-square@[email protected]linkfedilinkEnglish1•edit-21 month agoAnd Astronomy has had much, much longer to make those observations. They can also gather potentially millions of data points instead of five.
Same thing astronomy did.
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).
That’s irrelevant. Astronomy and polsci can both only test their hypotheses through observation.
And Astronomy has had much, much longer to make those observations. They can also gather potentially millions of data points instead of five.