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[–] [email protected] 54 points 1 year ago (17 children)

is this a controversial opinion? i think pretty much every economist would tell you it's a social science

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago (2 children)

No one who has even the faintest idea of what physics is would be able to conflate it with economics. About the only way the two are related is that they’re both studied by people to the point that you can get a degree that focuses on either.

[–] CthulhuDreamer 4 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I think you would be surprised how much math used in physics is used in economics and then there is statistics which is heavily used in both.

[–] [email protected] -2 points 1 year ago

Meh, math and statistics are (ab)used pretty much anywhere in science. Carpenters and blacksmiths both use hammers, but so do roofers and geologists.

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