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What "social science" do you find to be the least reliable?

Say, anthropology, or maybe psychology, for instance, and tell me WHY.

Update:

The modern anthropology is weak. This is a better question than people realize, too bad only two people seem to understand the question.

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  • ?
    Lv 6
    9 years ago
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    For YA it would be Dream Interpretation, because there is nothing to interpret. Dreams are just a part of REM sleep.

  • Jody
    Lv 7
    9 years ago

    Macroeconomics - analyzes the economy as a whole..

    Economics - analyzing and describing the production, distribution and consumption of wealth; from the Greek oikos "family, household, estate" and nomos "custom, law" hence means "household management" (microeconomics) or "management of the state" (macroeconomics).

    Economics "is the science which studies human behavior as a relation between scarce means having alternative uses," or "how people seek to satisfy needs and wants" and "the study of the financial aspects of human behavior."

    Least reliable because it is so important to balance the state and federal government budgets- but states and the federal government (and most individuals) are incapable of doing it, America and Americans are in tremendous amounts of debt. Therefore our teachings and/or management of the economy and economics is highly unreliable.

    To learn more about economics follow wiki below.

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