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[โ€“] somethingp@lemmy.world 1 points 2 days ago (1 children)

You have clearly never actually done "hard sciences" research in any meaningful way if this is your take. And computer science does not count as a science at all, it is more like engineering. Mathematics is a "hard science" that can be implemented through computer science, and physics is a "hard science" that can be implemented through electrical engineering (and as a subset computer engineering).

But even then mathematics is closer to philosophy and logic than any of the physical sciences. The physical sciences like physics, chem, bio are very different due to their experimental nature, and how sensitive they can be to specific conditions of the experiments. And the more complex the system being studied is, the harder it is to control variability which is why the social sciences like psychology and economics are working on incredibility difficult problems in systems we do not currently fully understand, and are more vulnerable to difficult reproducing and replicating the conclusions.

This is in contrast to computer science where we fully understand the system because humans have built it, and it is a machine built on the principles discovered by physicists and implemented by electrical engineers to run calculations that are created by mathematicians.

[โ€“] troed@fedia.io 1 points 2 days ago

I'm sure you know very well that what I wrote is perfectly true, so why the essay pretending otherwise?

https://spsp.org/news-center/character-context-blog/do-hard-sciences-hold-solution-replication-crisis