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Originally Posted by mburbank
Know what's a good, hard science. Economics. I think economists have every right to look down a sociologists. I mean, once you've established a really good set of totally provable theorems and an ability to acurately predict outcomes, like economics has, you can really thumb your nose.
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Actually, not only are both linked by a somewhat common theme but also considered "soft sciences" due to their heavy reliance on probability and statistics in their approach. That's not to say that economics does not make use of proveable mathematical tools.