Everything is obvious — once you know the answerhttps://t.co/xERAd1Fnv5 @duncanjwatts pic.twitter.com/WRAMAibQq6

— Dean Eckles (@deaneckles) August 21, 2017

Many people insist that sociology and psychology are worthless — because physics envy is so inculcated into everyone, no one can believe that a science that doesn’t deal wholly in numbers and equations has any value.

However, what many people perceive as “obvious” in the social sciences is obvious either way, as the tweet above points out.

I agree that it in many cases sociology and psychology need to be held to more rigorous standards (and no, I definitely don’t mean making them more like physics). However, asserting that they are valueless ignores the mountains of valid findings that have influenced nearly everything about our society.