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Quatrarius · 1118 days ago · link · · parent · post: "A disheartening conclusion: Quantitative social science is barely relevant in the real world and almost every social scientist covertly agrees"
some guy in the commments said it best
- I agree with this. Just because you consider yourself to have counted everything that matters does not mean that your readers are obliged to agree with you. The strongest criticism of your work is probably that you miss non-quantifiable returns to education, which makes your spreadsheet irrelevant.
this is a guy from the cato institute bitching that he wasted his time assigning numbers to things when he could have shot from the hip like every other right-libertarian and gotten as much time in the talking heads circuit
very odd for somebody saying that data doesn't matter to any social sciences to use no real non-anecdotal data in arguing this insanely hot take
sincerely,
somebody with a BA in linguistics, a real social science and not a field made-up to justify the status quo like this jackass