It's harder to do social/human science because it's just easier to make mistakes that leads to bias. It's harder to do in maths, physics, biology, medecine, astronomy, etc.

I often say that "hard sciences" have often progressed much more than social/human sciences.

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marginalia_nu 3 hours ago | parent | next [-]

Funny you say that, as medicine is one of the epicenters of the replication crisis[1].

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Replication_crisis#In_medicine

	▲	QuadmasterXLII 2 hours ago \| parent [-]
		you get a replication crisis on the bleeding edge between replication being possible and impossible. There’s never going to be a replication crisis in linear algebra, there’s never going to be a replication crisis in theology, there definitely was a replication crisis in psych and a replication crisis in nutrition science is distinctly plausible and would be extremely good news for the field as it moves through the edge.

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uriegas 3 hours ago | parent | prev [-]

I agree. Most of the time people think STEM is harder but it is not. Yes, it is harder to understand some concepts, but in social sciences we don't even know what the correct concepts are. There hasn't been so much progress in social sciences in the last centuries as there was for STEM.

	▲	diamondage 3 hours ago \| parent [-]
		I'm not sure if you're correct. In fact there has been a revolution in some areas of social science in the last two decades due to the availability of online behavioural data.