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[–] 9point6@lemmy.world 30 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (9 children)

Economics is a funny one as ultimately it's a focused & technical strand of anthropology (which I believe is considered a science by many) that people often incorrectly lump in with maths.

Kinda tough for an academic to run meaningful experiments on an actual economy though beyond models and simulation. And as anyone who has watched a Gary Stevenson video or two will know, your average academic economist is pretty bad at models and simulations.

Though I guess even bad experiments are still experiments

Edit: typo

[–] fossilesque@mander.xyz 27 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Most of them are pretty bad at anthro too tbh lol

If they were good at stuff they wouldn't be economists

Source: I'm an economist

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