There are only 4 interesting fundamental categories of knowledge: Math, Physics, Chemistry and Biology; everything else is made up by man from nothing and it will return to nothing after all surplus energy (that gave humans the possibility to dream up all that crap in the first place) is consumed!
Hang on to your knowledge of nature people; because this society is going Kansas.
To make predictions about society dont you need an understanding of... I dunno. Sociology, Psychology, Politics, Finance, or maybe History?
I dont remember societal forecasting in my STEM classes.
Not meant as a roast, just a mild reminder that the dominant force on earth is people.
Finance is about navigating the particular niceties of dealing with money as a professional, and maybe a little bit of trend-misprediction for the sake of occasionally getting to be a "rainmaker" for some employer. I think you mean economics, which is about the movements of economic agents and of whole economies.
Economics is a "social" science (ignoring for the moment the fact that some economists aren't very scientific), and finance is a (highly lucrative) job field.
I don't understand. Hasn't Kansas generally turned away from science and toward religion?
I was under the impression the Kansas reference was basically an insult both to the direction of society and Kansas, but then I wasn't sure how that fit in with the claims about what sciences are useful or "real". Yours might make more sense.
Then again, I'm not sure sense is what was being made, there, anyway.
Okay, that makes perfect sense. Thank you.