Praxeology

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I've mentioned this science before, but basically it's a derivative of economics that incorporates psychology and other disciplines. It's the study of human behavior. Anyways, there's a somewhat new youtube channel about it, and I'm not gonna lie this lady is pretty easy on the eyes.

[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DwC_WQP_ZUw&list=UUOZQmbMTDZWhiyvPlp4O4Rg&feature=plcp[/youtube]
 
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nbakerld said:
I've mentioned this science before, but basically it's a derivative of economics that incorporates psychology and other disciplines. It's the study of human behavior. Anyways, there's a somewhat new youtube channel about it, and I'm not gonna lie this lady is pretty easy on the eyes.

[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DwC_WQP_ZUw&list=UUOZQmbMTDZWhiyvPlp4O4Rg&feature=plcp[/youtube]
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I agree with you on that
 
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Generally when you have to make a case for why you are a science - you are not a science.
 
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nbakerld said:
I've mentioned this science before, but basically it's a derivative of economics that incorporates psychology and other disciplines. It's the study of human behavior. Anyways, there's a somewhat new youtube channel about it, and I'm not gonna lie this lady is pretty easy on the eyes.
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She's a 6/10, at best.

Also, for future reference, when you point to a chick in a video you should give time when she appears so we don't have to watch some dude running in slow motion for a minute and a half before seeing a solid 6 who is dressed way too conservatively, anyway.

Unsubscribed.
 
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lawgator1 said:
She's a 6/10, at best.

Also, for future reference, when you point to a chick in a video you should give time when she appears so we don't have to watch some dude running in slow motion for a minute and a half before seeing a solid 6 who is dressed way too conservatively, anyway.

Unsubscribed.
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There was some nice cleavage action, but maybe that's still conservative to you.

I didn't post it for the eye candy. That was an aside.

6?!! Now I have to see pics of your made up Asian GF.
 
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nbakerld said:
There was some nice cleavage action, but maybe that's still conservative to you.

I didn't post it for the eye candy. That was an aside.

6?!! Now I have to see pics of your made up Asian GF.
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You would become a bleeding heart liberal if you understood where that is getting me right now. :)
 
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nbakerld said:
Examples?
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To get philosophical the field I study (Marketing) claims to be a science but it's really not.

We use the scientific method to study marketing "phenomena" but I have a hard time justifying it as a science when it lacks a laws, unifying theory, etc.

Management falls in the same camp. It is a mismash of theoretical bases, but lacks laws, and unifying theory.

Economics qualifies because it is the closest of the business related disciplines to a physical science in it's adherence to laws, lawlike generalizations and unifying theories.

Praxeology is going to have a hard time because it is a stew of selected bits from several disciplines. It has a long way to go in developing empirically tested laws, theories, etc.
 
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volinbham said:
To get philosophical the field I study (Marketing) claims to be a science but it's really not.

We use the scientific method to study marketing "phenomena" but I have a hard time justifying it as a science when it lacks a laws, unifying theory, etc.

Management falls in the same camp. It is a mismash of theoretical bases, but lacks laws, and unifying theory.

Economics qualifies because it is the closest of the business related disciplines to a physical science in it's adherence to laws, lawlike generalizations and unifying theories.

Praxeology is going to have a hard time because it is a stew of selected bits from several disciplines. It has a long way to go in developing empirically tested laws, theories, etc.
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I see what you are saying, but I think they want to be a science like sociology is a science. My problem with the field of economics is it tries to be too much like a physical science. Praxeology is what I think economics should be. We rely too much on data that can easily be manipulated/wrong, and don't rely enough on sound theory.
 
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nbakerld said:
I see what you are saying, but I think they want to be a science like sociology is a science. My problem with the field of economics is it tries to be too much like a physical science. Praxeology is what I think economics should be. We rely too much on data that can easily be manipulated/wrong, and don't rely enough on sound theory.
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Economics does meet some of the criteria though. It is an incomplete science as are most - including physics, chemistry, biology. Economics does though have general laws and is closer to having unifying theory. I think Economics relies heavily on theory but has a data problem. We have theories of macro-economic behavior but the empirical data is so clouded with other variables it is tough to empirically validate the theory. The theory construction is sound but difficult to test.

The attractiveness of Prax is that it attempts to be more complete but given the brief introduction there appears to be no well developed, tested and validated history of why some concepts are included and others excluded. It has some "face" validity but fails on many other tests of being a science. (based on what I've seen). Nothing in the video told me anything about theory development in Prax and that is critical to being a science.

Take my field of Marketing. It grew out of Economics and added Psychology, Sociology and Anthropology. It that way it is like Prax because it borrows from many fields. At it's core, it is the study of exchange. Even though Marketing scientific literature goes back to the early 1900s there is no unifying theory of marketing and a lack of general laws of marketing. The appeal is that we use various disciplines to investigate the phenomena of interest but we are short of a real core that serves to make it real "science". We do still use scientific method though to advance the field and state of knowledge.

Finally, it doesn't have to be a science to generate useful knowledge or understanding of phenomena. Some would argue that human behavior itself is not amenable to a science in the manor that physical sciences exist because of free will and cognition.
 
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