But some stuff is explicitly outside of science’s purview, though not in the way you’re talking about here. That is, some stuff is explicitly about, for example, personal experience, which science has limited tools for working with since it has to strip away a lot of information in order to transform it into something that works with scientific methods.
Compare how psychology sometimes can’t say much of anything about things people actually experience because it doesn’t have a way to turn experience into data.
I think this might conflate “science” with something like “statistics”. It’s possible to study things like personal experience, just harder at scale.
The Hollywood-scientist example illustrates this, I think. Dr. Physicist finds something that wildly conflicts with her current understanding of the world, and would be hard to put a number on, so she concludes that it can’t and shouldn’t be reasoned about using the scientific method.
But some stuff is explicitly outside of science’s purview, though not in the way you’re talking about here. That is, some stuff is explicitly about, for example, personal experience, which science has limited tools for working with since it has to strip away a lot of information in order to transform it into something that works with scientific methods.
Compare how psychology sometimes can’t say much of anything about things people actually experience because it doesn’t have a way to turn experience into data.
I think this might conflate “science” with something like “statistics”. It’s possible to study things like personal experience, just harder at scale.
The Hollywood-scientist example illustrates this, I think. Dr. Physicist finds something that wildly conflicts with her current understanding of the world, and would be hard to put a number on, so she concludes that it can’t and shouldn’t be reasoned about using the scientific method.