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[–] [email protected] 75 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (17 children)

See, replication isn't a problem if your entire field is vibes-based. A lot of economics papers I come across are like that (so much so that I am close to writing off the entire decipline as unscientific). The diff in the level of rigour you would see in e.g. particle physics versus in economics is baffling.

It used to be psychology as well but I am noticing they are more than aware of their replication crisis lately. Whereas economics feels pseudoscience with a maths clothing.

[–] [email protected] 33 points 1 month ago (7 children)

The problem is that a lot out economics relies on "models" that estimate the price of milk by assuming a frictionless cow on an infinite plane. There's a distinct lack of attempts to actually test the models against reality, or simply study reality itself (the reason likely being that when people do study reality instead of models, the progressive economists most often turn out to be right)

[–] [email protected] 14 points 1 month ago (1 children)

where's that SMBC comic that says economic models suck so bad because they're created by the sort of person who gets a business degree

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 month ago

That's pretty much all of them

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