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My rule of thumb is that if a subject area includes the word "science" in its title, it is less likely to follow the scientific method.

Physicists don't assert that they study "physics science", nor do chemists describe their subject as "chemistry science".

It's only a rule of thumb of course. There are exceptions (computer science, neuroscience, ...) but I think it works in a lot of cases: "social science", "management science", "data science", ...

It's a bit like how if a country includes the word "democratic" in its title, it's less likely to be a real democracy.




Computer science isn't an exception, it mostly mathematics


I tend to agree, I was thinking this as I wrote the above.


> My rule of thumb is that if a subject area includes the word "science" in its title, it is less likely to follow the scientific method.

> Physicists don't assert that they study "physics science", nor do chemists describe their subject as "chemistry science".

Fortunately, most of the people in question study "economics", "psychology", "sociology", "anthropology", and so are exempt from this heuristic.




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