R. P. Feynman on social sciences
Why Hacker News recommends it
HN cites it in threads on psychology replication and weak research as Feynman's critique of pseudo science.
What it is
A two-minute clip of Richard Feynman on the social sciences, discussing what counts as real science versus pseudo science.
Recommended by 0 HN commenters across 0 different months, 2012 to 2015.
What Hacker News said
Cites zerohp · 2012-03 · on “Collection of Richard Feynman talks on the scientific method, learning, and CS”
Actually, people still say that sociology, and other social "sciences" are not science. You're assuming that the scientific method is science, but its more than that. Many modern fields of endeavor call themselves sciences mostly because of the success of science. They only superficially emulate science. This includes Computer Science, which is really mathematics and engineering. Feynman himself speaks about it: [this video]
Cites FrojoS · 2012-10 · on “Daniel Kahneman calls for ‘daisy chain’ of psychology replications”
Richard P. Feynman on pseudo science: [this video] BTW, I come from the field of robotics and there, hardly any published result is replicated either.
Cites dpc_pw · 2015-07 · on “Study shows psychotherapy becoming less effective”
R. P. Feynman on social sciences: [this video] Psychology, economics, climatology. World is literally run by "almost-sciences" claiming to have an authority of "full-science".