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Is political science an actual science?


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Is political science an actual science?
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Yes. It's of the same sort of science as economics or astronomy in that you can't run experiments.
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>>916910
>can't run experiments
>science
pick one.
Also, you most certainly can run astronomy experiments.
Economics, poly sci, not sciences.
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Would you ask here if it was?
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>englisch language
>having different words for science and humanities
In German both are "Wissenschaft"
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>>918032
Autistic reductionists amirite.
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>>918032
i was just as surprised when i saw that there is a podcast episode discussing if history is science or not

like what kind of question is that

three asthmatic dudes spending electrons on such trite question that's irrelevant in majority of languages
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>>917016
>astronomy experiments
How?
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>>917016
You can run economic experiments.
They just need larger sample sizes and to account for personal preferences and discount it in favor of demonstrable trends
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Does it employ the scientific method? If yes, it's science. If no, it's not.
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