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Ep. 69: Ben Landau-Taylor on social technology, institutions, and the future.

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What's the Biggest Thing About Social Science?

Social science is often done in a very quantitative way, which definitely has its place. But i think people are too quick to start quantifying things or turning the things into umbers and making them very crisp like that. There's some areas of social science where this works pretty well. Like if we're trying to talk about what the fertility rate is among a particular demographic. And that's a very meaningful number, which you can get a lot from.

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