Some people claim exact sciences and humanities are on the same level. They say the same things are done with different tools. Nothing can be far from the truth.
Imagine Newton’s physics in the 1600s. The extremely complex and provable system of equations and their geometric illustrations. The same thing goes with Einstein’s Theory of relativity.
And then imagine where the humanities were. No g factor (IQ), no Big Five personality traits, no factor analysis, schizophrenia were called Dementia praecox because of deteriorating cognitive deficits. And what did they discover later? The cognitive deficits were remarkably stable.
People also believed that heroin addiction could be treated with non-addictive cocaine. In our times, cocaine is considered (and proved) a highly addictive drug.
Back then, there were aerodynamics, electricity, chemistry, engineering, mathematics (the queen of the exact sciences).
And what about the humanities? The g factor is one of the most significant statistical concepts in humanities but it has been discovered in the 1890s. Such extremely important knowledge having been discovered so lately.
Sigmund Freud invented his psychoanalysis which is pseudoscience of its own and it haunted psychiatry tens of years later.
Humanities are not only much less precise but their knowledge is very limited in contrast with robust exact science (geology, geography, physics, astrology and so on).
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