scientism comments on Schools Proliferating Without Evidence - Less Wrong

40 Post author: Eliezer_Yudkowsky 15 March 2009 06:43AM

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Comment author: scientism 15 March 2009 02:32:20PM 9 points [-]

This shouldn't be surprising. Medicine has a longer history than empirical science. For thousands of years it flourished without a second thought for outcome. Clearly whatever medicine is, socially speaking, it isn't reliant on the effectiveness of its methods for its survival. The same is true of education. Schools and universities existed long before there was anything to teach. Whatever social role they may play, imparting skill is a recent development, and clearly not the most central concern.