did y'all ever hear about the time every economist in the world was distracted by bananas for a month?
we all stopped what we were doing to eat bananas and take notes on how the stringy bits came off. just because there was an interestingly written article about what side you should open your banana from in Slate and We Had To Prove Our Position.
i have very little tolerance for the Prove It Brigade anymore since then. can't just enjoy sucking on a banana
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Skullgrid@lemmy.world · 16 pts · 138d
❌ Deterministic science
✅ Statistical corrolations
reallykindasorta@slrpnk.net · 15 pts · 138d
Agreed, studying sociology really opened my eyes to badly reasoned statistical methods (rampant in other fields too).
Windex007@lemmy.world · 6 pts · 137d
Speaking in personal anecdotes, I think the ratio of "importance" to "how well it is done", sociology wears the crown.
rumschlumpel@feddit.org · 5 pts · 137d
Competition by economists is fierce, though.
HeyThisIsntTheYMCA@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 137d
THANK YOU
did y'all ever hear about the time every economist in the world was distracted by bananas for a month?
we all stopped what we were doing to eat bananas and take notes on how the stringy bits came off. just because there was an interestingly written article about what side you should open your banana from in Slate and We Had To Prove Our Position.
i have very little tolerance for the Prove It Brigade anymore since then. can't just enjoy sucking on a banana
eestileib@lemmy.blahaj.zone · 6 pts · 138d
Ayoooo gimme Harry Collins and Bruno Latour on a drip feed.
Oofnik@kbin.earth · 5 pts · 137d
Aww man now I feel bad, I was just trying to poke some fun at sociology, but y'all are out for blood!
HeyThisIsntTheYMCA@lemmy.world · 3 pts · 137d
hey as an economist i liked quant soc okay.
qual soc can suck a dick.
then pass the dick this way please. i'm an economist remember
ano@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 92d
autoethnography
homesweethomeMrL@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 138d
Whazzzaaaaaaahhhhhhhghhh
SaveTheTuaHawk@lemmy.ca · 0 pts · 137d
soft science = not science.