Lumifer comments on Welcome to Less Wrong! (7th thread, December 2014) - Less Wrong

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Comment author: Lumifer 20 July 2015 04:10:34PM 1 point [-]

Finance is not social science. I think it's more similar to engineering: you need to have a grasp of the underlying concepts and be able to do the math, but the real world will screw you up on a very regular basis and so you need to be able to deal with that.

Comment author: James_Miller 20 July 2015 05:22:27PM 0 points [-]

Behavioral finance is supposedly a big thing.

Comment author: Lumifer 20 July 2015 05:37:05PM 2 points [-]

Taking psychology into consideration doesn't make finance a social science any more than sociological factors make civil engineering a social science.