[ekianjo]

The standard for pushing papers in social sciences is as low as ever.

[radarsat1]

Back pain study. How is this "social sciences"?

[ekianjo]

Back pain is pretty hard to quantify. A lot of perception involved rather than actual physiology. (most of the time you don't see any actual back problem when doing clinical investigation, at least nothing noticeable with typical methods).

[fao_]

They can't describe their back pain mathematically /s