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Beware the Metagame

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Have you ever wondered why the less

Have you ever wondered why the less "pure" a scientific field is, the less progress we've made? The more abstract a subject is, the easier it is to reason about and therefore make progress on. That's why we've made a lot more progress in math and physics than any other subject. The problem became more salient recently as some of the perceived scientific progress made in the less pure sciences -- psychology, medicine, economics -- is being nullified in a widespread "replication crisis" where many scientific studies are failing to reproduce. One way to get more abstract is to take the meta…

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