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Old 05-09-2008, 04:56 AM
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Originally Posted by stekim View Post
The problem is we can't hold all other things constant like hard sciences can. Econ experiments cannot happen in a lab. So all you can do is take all the data as a whole and try and figure out the result. Which will lead to disagreement.
This is essentially the same problem social sciences face... except since other social sciences don't focus on just one aspect of society (the economy) there are even more weird variables to consider.
I think it really amounts to being the same as predicting the weather. Only the butterflies involved wseem to flap their wings even more unpredictably.
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