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bitxbit on Sept 12, 2020 | parent | context | favorite | on: What's wrong with social science and how to fix it

I mean they couldn’t just do it in Matlab? or Python? So incredibly lazy.

garden_hermit on Sept 12, 2020 | [–]

Python, R, Mathab etc. are outside of many people's skillsets. I've tried to evangelize to many fellow researchers, but they simply don't have the time or the interest in novel programming languages when the tools they have (largely) work.

watwut on Sept 12, 2020 | [–]

Matlab is quote expensive.

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