Ytlaya posted:

Probably the only potential element of truth to those arguments is that some "soft" sciences have equal need of people skilled in statistics/mathematics but fewer people who actually have those skills, resulting in poor use of statistics (though this is also a problem in "hard" sciences). But that's completely unrelated to the validity of the fields themselves and is likely mostly a result of there being less money to be made in soft science research. If anything it's a sign that people need to take those fields more seriously.