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by Joking_Phantom 892 days ago
This fits what I've read. Data driven decision making is the way to go, but good data is hard to come by in these fields. We have no baseline for many parts of physical health, let alone mental health. Every time a pop culture scientist tries to justify their world perspective without taking the source of data seriously, it does the field as a whole serious harm.
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Human behavior is notoriously hard to quantify with hard data you can trust that is pertinent, lacks confounding factors etc.