Social Science

demented and sad, but social

study of Society Design, social phenomenon, etc.

concerned with society and the relationships among individuals within a society. It in turn has many branches, each of which is considered a "social science". The main social sciences include anthropology, economics, political science, psychology and sociology. In a wider sense, social science also includes amongst its branches some fields in the humanities[1] (Liberal Arts) such as anthropology, archaeology, history, law and linguistics. The term is also sometimes used to refer specifically to the field of sociology, the original science of society, established in the 19th century.

Can you distinguish Pseudo-Science from Failure of Science?

Psychology study samples: Their research documents how most of the studies that psychologists claim show human universals are really just extrapolations from a single social group, the cultural equivalent of the psychopaths in my example. As The New York Times wrote in their review: According to the study, 68 percent of research subjects in a sample of hundreds of studies in leading psychology journals came from the United States, and 96 percent from Western industrialized nations. Of the American subjects, 67 percent were undergraduates studying psychology — making a randomly selected American undergraduate 4,000 times likelier to be a subject than a random non-Westerner. The subpopulation that Henrich and colleagues found to be overrepresented are entirely WEIRD (Western, Educated, Industrialized, Rich, and Democratic) societies.

psychology: might as well go with Intervention Roulette

• WEIRD
• http://www.vox.com/2015/8/27/9216383/irreproducibility-research
• Roy Baumeister's Will Power work failed to be reproduced

criminology http://euc.sagepub.com/content/12/5/581.abstract?etoc

https://www.adbusters.org/magazine/109/human-nature.html