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To: Apollo who wrote (6911)10/3/2000 2:30:15 PM
From: Dr. Id  Read Replies (1) of 22706
 
it would be interesting to explore whether there's a difference between the natural sciences and social sciences in this regard. It's so much more difficult to come up with real intellectual progress in the latter that I am extraordinarily skeptical of people in those fields who use mathematical correlations without theoretical analysis to make a point.

Aha! We agree. Seriously, my personal take is that the "social sciences" are important, but lack of rigorous evaluation with proper statistics and experimental design can sometimes undermine investigative efforts. And I think this lack of rigor may possibly be more common in the social sciences than in the physical sciences.

Some of the worst research I've ever seen has been done by MD's. Lacking in experimental design, shoddy control groups...I've even seen studies in medical journals with NO control groups (I won't even get into the ethical problems with how much medical research is funded by drug companies to study their own drugs while they wine and dine the physicians doing the research!) The medical journals are often much less rigorous than the psychology journals (in fact, many colleagues who have had articles turned down by psychology journals will often successfully submit to some of the medical journals and get published.)

(This is a gross generalization, but in the spirit of the present discussion).

Dr.Id@throwingmytwocentsintothisMosheritebattle.com
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