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Most social science is shoddy, fake, or otherwise misleading (i.e. it proves nothing meaningful despite the claims of the researchers). If you believed every social science study you heard about, you'd be more wrong about the world than if you disbelieved them all.



Yep, it's the worst approach to this subject matter, except for all the alternatives.




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