What social science does- and doesn't- know is an article written by Jim Manzi on how social science like economics can be so scientific and yet so not scientific, mainly because social science could not have a control experiment like natural science can, which makes social science hard to be predicted and calculated.
However, the interesting part of this article is that social science, in regardless how not scientific it is seemed, has its own way to make its own experiment to prove something out of it. Although the society follows a general pattern, there's still unpredictability that can be found in human's behavior. Every person is somehow unique in itself, so how can an experiment conducted be called legitimate when the result couldn't represent everyone in the world? Why would experiments carried on social science always fail even until today? Conclusively, we are certain that the study of human society is beyond our scientific realm, then how can we know for sure that everything Mr. Rizzo has said in lectures is scientifically true when there is basically no absolute scientific approach to understand human society?
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