• mind@lemmy.world
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    1 year ago

    Economics is the hardest social science, because it uses the most math.

    It’s somewhere between physics and sociology.

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      1 year ago

      That doesn’t make any sense. Anything involving math is relatively easy because there’s only one right answer. A lot of people have this backwards because they have shitty math education and seem to think higher maths are akin to some kind of alchemy.

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        1 year ago

        Hard science as in “has a right answer”, as opposed to a soft science that is more subjective.

        I’m not referring to difficulty.

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          1 year ago

          Great. I’m not referring to your ideas. I’m referring to popular understanding.