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**spapsinee** · 07-16-2012, 07:05 PM

Social Engineering is now a hard science. It's no longer philosophical or subjective. It's mathematically precise.

I disagree with you on this statement. Social-anything cannot be a hard science because humans are intrinsically subjective beings. For example, the whole modern system of (main stream) economics is viewed as a "hard" science, with mathematical models and implied precision. However, no mathematical model can account for millions of individual minds with objectives and preferences that change every single day. You cannot make a mathematical model on what everyone's preferences will be one day from now, let alone years from now, and you can't with mathematical precision guarantee that a certain act of social engineering will succeed or not.

07-16-2012, 07:05 PM	#5
spapsinee Join Date Oct 2005 Posts 501 Senior Member	Social Engineering is now a hard science. It's no longer philosophical or subjective. It's mathematically precise. I disagree with you on this statement. Social-anything cannot be a hard science because humans are intrinsically subjective beings. For example, the whole modern system of (main stream) economics is viewed as a "hard" science, with mathematical models and implied precision. However, no mathematical model can account for millions of individual minds with objectives and preferences that change every single day. You cannot make a mathematical model on what everyone's preferences will be one day from now, let alone years from now, and you can't with mathematical precision guarantee that a certain act of social engineering will succeed or not.
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