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How much of the "social sciences" is irreproducible garbage?

If you design experiments correctly and do the math right ev...
Disturbing Aquamarine Potus
  08/25/26
90% sounds right
alcoholic roommate haunted graveyard
  08/25/26
https://www.icpsr.umich.edu/sites/ICPSR/search/studies
Brilliant station karate
  08/25/26
https://www.icpsr.umich.edu/sites/ICPSR/view/studies/251457
Brilliant station karate
  08/25/26
i don't think it's limited to social sciences. 'scientists' ...
ruby adulterous dingle berry yarmulke
  08/25/26
the social sciences are the reason you obey authority in thi...
Brilliant station karate
  08/25/26
you're telling me this for the first time
ruby adulterous dingle berry yarmulke
  08/25/26
how do you think they calculate the unemployment rate that g...
Brilliant station karate
  08/25/26
who cares. social sciences are SHIT: https://www.nature.com...
Disturbing Aquamarine Potus
  08/25/26
look at you trying to change the subject
Brilliant station karate
  08/25/26
You changed it first. The unemployment rate is an official s...
Disturbing Aquamarine Potus
  08/25/26
the unemployment rate is calculated using social science. I ...
Brilliant station karate
  08/25/26
that's an ignoratio elenchi
Disturbing Aquamarine Potus
  08/25/26
you're just low IQ. You've never made an intelligent comment...
Brilliant station karate
  08/25/26
Yeah because equivocating over "social science" is...
Disturbing Aquamarine Potus
  08/25/26
what do you think "social sciences" means? be spec...
Brilliant station karate
  08/25/26
You are using the broad sense of social sciences "&ldqu...
Disturbing Aquamarine Potus
  08/25/26
no I'm not. that's a straw man fallacy. you're also dodging ...
Brilliant station karate
  08/25/26
I acknowledge that unemployment statistics are part of the s...
Disturbing Aquamarine Potus
  08/25/26
within the social sciences there are people who quantitative...
Brilliant station karate
  08/25/26
I am talking about quantitative research. That's what reprod...
Disturbing Aquamarine Potus
  08/25/26
all 28k studies at that ICPSR link are reproducible. I dare ...
Brilliant station karate
  08/25/26
I don't even know who "karlstack" is and I couldn'...
Disturbing Aquamarine Potus
  08/25/26
Date: August 25th, 2026 12:07 PM Author: The Penis I don...
Brilliant station karate
  08/25/26
...
Disturbing Aquamarine Potus
  08/25/26
"the unemployment rate is calculated using social scien...
Accurate at predicting vs Measures of probability
  08/25/26
Basically the only thing from the social sciences that has p...
Richard Ames
  08/25/26
(buys annual passes to the creation museum)
Brilliant station karate
  08/25/26
I'm a geologist and can attest to the fact that geology is a...
Trip piazza
  08/25/26
no one ITT has linked to an irreproducibile social science s...
Brilliant station karate
  08/25/26


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Date: August 25th, 2026 12:02 AM
Author: Disturbing Aquamarine Potus

If you design experiments correctly and do the math right everything always comes out like trash. you can't "prove" anything unless you basically hit the lottery. No way 90% of these "experiments" are designed properly and. have measurment validity and resolution and reproducibility. it is always way too clean. noone would be able to publish anythihng. they are just going fishing and making a series of defensible looking "choices" until they get an interesting result.

(https://autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5896907&forum_id=2#50090999)



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Date: August 25th, 2026 12:07 AM
Author: alcoholic roommate haunted graveyard

90% sounds right

(https://autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5896907&forum_id=2#50091004)



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Date: August 25th, 2026 12:23 AM
Author: Brilliant station karate

https://www.icpsr.umich.edu/sites/ICPSR/search/studies

(https://autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5896907&forum_id=2#50091028)



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Date: August 25th, 2026 12:24 AM
Author: Brilliant station karate

https://www.icpsr.umich.edu/sites/ICPSR/view/studies/251457

(https://autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5896907&forum_id=2#50091030)



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Date: August 25th, 2026 12:28 AM
Author: ruby adulterous dingle berry yarmulke

i don't think it's limited to social sciences. 'scientists' can't even decide whether statins and vitamin c are good or bad for you, or whether black holes exist/do not exist.

most of these people are charlatans.

(https://autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5896907&forum_id=2#50091032)



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Date: August 25th, 2026 12:34 AM
Author: Brilliant station karate

the social sciences are the reason you obey authority in this country. are entire legal apparatus is constructed on social science from the 80s supplemented by Obama-era enrichment.

(https://autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5896907&forum_id=2#50091043)



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Date: August 25th, 2026 12:35 AM
Author: ruby adulterous dingle berry yarmulke

you're telling me this for the first time

(https://autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5896907&forum_id=2#50091044)



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Date: August 25th, 2026 12:35 AM
Author: Brilliant station karate

how do you think they calculate the unemployment rate that gets reported in the news? take a wild ass guess

(https://autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5896907&forum_id=2#50091045)



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Date: August 25th, 2026 12:39 AM
Author: Disturbing Aquamarine Potus

who cares. social sciences are SHIT: https://www.nature.com/articles/s41562-018-0399-z

https://www.nature.com/articles/s41562-018-0441-1

(https://autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5896907&forum_id=2#50091054)



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Date: August 25th, 2026 12:40 AM
Author: Brilliant station karate

look at you trying to change the subject

(https://autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5896907&forum_id=2#50091057)



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Date: August 25th, 2026 12:42 AM
Author: Disturbing Aquamarine Potus

You changed it first. The unemployment rate is an official statistical estimate, not the sort of hypothesis driven experimental result I was talking about in the OP.

(https://autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5896907&forum_id=2#50091064)



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Date: August 25th, 2026 12:44 AM
Author: Brilliant station karate

the unemployment rate is calculated using social science. I changed nothing

(https://autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5896907&forum_id=2#50091067)



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Date: August 25th, 2026 12:46 AM
Author: Disturbing Aquamarine Potus

that's an ignoratio elenchi

(https://autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5896907&forum_id=2#50091070)



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Date: August 25th, 2026 12:47 AM
Author: Brilliant station karate

you're just low IQ. You've never made an intelligent comment, ever

(https://autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5896907&forum_id=2#50091072)



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Date: August 25th, 2026 12:48 AM
Author: Disturbing Aquamarine Potus

Yeah because equivocating over "social science" is the true sign of high iq!

(https://autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5896907&forum_id=2#50091075)



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Date: August 25th, 2026 12:55 AM
Author: Brilliant station karate

what do you think "social sciences" means? be specific

(https://autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5896907&forum_id=2#50091083)



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Date: August 25th, 2026 12:57 AM
Author: Disturbing Aquamarine Potus

You are using the broad sense of social sciences "“anything involving social statistics!” to respond to a criticism about experimental research.

(https://autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5896907&forum_id=2#50091086)



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Date: August 25th, 2026 12:58 AM
Author: Brilliant station karate

no I'm not. that's a straw man fallacy. you're also dodging the question I just asked

(https://autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5896907&forum_id=2#50091087)



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Date: August 25th, 2026 1:04 AM
Author: Disturbing Aquamarine Potus

I acknowledge that unemployment statistics are part of the social sciences. It's not a big deal. I don't really disagree with you. I don't think social science is totally useless. I just think a lot of the research isn't reproducible.

(https://autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5896907&forum_id=2#50091092)



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Date: August 25th, 2026 1:14 AM
Author: Brilliant station karate

within the social sciences there are people who quantitative methodologies and people who use qualitative methodologies. You probably heard about the qualitative methodology bullshit and didn't realize the quantitative side exists. You probably also didn't realize that they do statistics better than researchers in biology and medicine

(https://autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5896907&forum_id=2#50091105)



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Date: August 25th, 2026 1:29 AM
Author: Disturbing Aquamarine Potus

I am talking about quantitative research. That's what reproducibility problems apply to. I agree econ has strong quantitative methodology, idk that you can generalize that to sociology and psychology. I think econ researchers generally know more math than bio and medical researchers, but the research generally isn't more empirically valid. Bio research is generally grounded in physical reality. Econ you can have sophisticated math executed perfectly floating on weak assumptions.

(https://autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5896907&forum_id=2#50091118)



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Date: August 25th, 2026 10:51 AM
Author: Brilliant station karate

all 28k studies at that ICPSR link are reproducible. I dare you to find one that isn't. I get that you're a crank who worships Karlstack, but you're obviously a lightweight with no idea what the fuck you're talking about. No one takes you seriously and you're obviously not a functioning lawyer.

(https://autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5896907&forum_id=2#50091508)



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Date: August 25th, 2026 12:07 PM
Author: Disturbing Aquamarine Potus

I don't even know who "karlstack" is and I couldn't care less about the "ICPSR". However, I appreciate your passion, and I sincerely hope you find an effective treatment plan for whatever you are currently experiencing.

(https://autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5896907&forum_id=2#50091636)



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Date: August 25th, 2026 12:09 PM
Author: Brilliant station karate

Date: August 25th, 2026 12:07 PM

Author: The Penis

I don't even know who "karlstack" is

(https://autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5896907&forum_id=2#50091640)



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Date: August 25th, 2026 5:45 PM
Author: Disturbing Aquamarine Potus



(https://autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5896907&forum_id=2#50092633)



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Date: August 25th, 2026 7:54 PM
Author: Accurate at predicting vs Measures of probability (gunneratttt)

"the unemployment rate is calculated using social science"

Ah yes, the special social science adding machine

(https://autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5896907&forum_id=2#50092929)



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Date: August 25th, 2026 11:00 AM
Author: Richard Ames

Basically the only thing from the social sciences that has proven to be replicable and have meaningful predictive value is IQ testing.

The issue with "social sciences" is that they're filled with shitlibs who do anything they can to "prove" that IQ isn't the innate driving force that it is. Hence nothing they do is replicable.

(https://autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5896907&forum_id=2#50091516)



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Date: August 25th, 2026 11:10 AM
Author: Brilliant station karate

(buys annual passes to the creation museum)

(https://autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5896907&forum_id=2#50091536)



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Date: August 25th, 2026 8:34 PM
Author: Trip piazza

I'm a geologist and can attest to the fact that geology is an "investigative" scienc. Most of it cannot be reproduced, it only has patterns. It's fake and gay.



(https://autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5896907&forum_id=2#50093047)



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Date: August 25th, 2026 9:08 PM
Author: Brilliant station karate

no one ITT has linked to an irreproducibile social science study. It's weird because I provided 28,000 social science studies for poasters to select from. How hard is it to find ONE?

(https://autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5896907&forum_id=2#50093132)