tc @ 47: game theory tells you the math, social science tells you what people do. most of the stuff listed is taught in social science courses, fwiw. I didn’t even get into linguistics, is law a science? much of social science is descriptive, statistical, but useful for all that. what about archeology, digging stuff up is revealing, although not terribly useful as predictive. we do NOT have the mythical science of psychohistory of Hari Seldon in Asimov’s Foundation stories, in spite of the 19th century sociologists’ idea that we do, or would, or should (which is what Asimov based his ideas on, of course). but what we have is still significant. knowledge is not less valuable just because it is not omniscience, though it is certainly worthwhile to tell the one from the other.

sorry if this is 5 of 4 again.

… so I won’t even get into AM @ 42, darn it.