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I was referring to social studies. Biology on the other hand is a real science. A science has laws.


Not sure I buy that.

There's plenty of studies in economics (especially micro-economics) that have statistical laws just like biology does. Similar for psychology. And even for war:

It's hard to run controlled experiments at the largest scales, but there have been plenty of experiments and studies at smaller scales. And some of them yielded statistical 'laws'.




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