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by radarsat1 3033 days ago
Back pain study. How is this "social sciences"?
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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).
They can't describe their back pain mathematically /s