Maybe scientists in soft fields behave differently, but this correlation with other notions of “soft” needs to be explained. It could be a founder effect, but that doesn’t seem plausible to me.
“If your experiment needs statistics, you ought to have done a better experiment.”—Rutherford
One problem is that soft sciences need statistics or at least make them more tempting. I don’t think it’s useful to phrase it in terms of blame, that the soft scientists were less able to resist this temptation.
(I agree with everything the Dreaded Anomaly said, too.)
Maybe scientists in soft fields behave differently, but this correlation with other notions of “soft” needs to be explained. It could be a founder effect, but that doesn’t seem plausible to me.
“If your experiment needs statistics, you ought to have done a better experiment.”—Rutherford
One problem is that soft sciences need statistics or at least make them more tempting. I don’t think it’s useful to phrase it in terms of blame, that the soft scientists were less able to resist this temptation.
(I agree with everything the Dreaded Anomaly said, too.)