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tbrownawtoday at 1:11 AM0 repliesview on HN

> > And for sociology, the problem isn't that the math is too hard, it's that the practice of sociology is pretty much a political exercise masquerading as science.

> The problem is better characterized as social science is being harder to do well than we tohught.

And the thing that makes it had to do well is that it's easy to know ahead of time what experimental result will best favor your existing beliefs.