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Comment author: FiftyTwo 15 September 2011 08:50:11PM *  5 points [-]

The seeming rigorousness of a field probably correlates with how easy it is to make repeatable experiments. For physics and chemistry it's extremely easy; animal biology and psychology a bit less so; and for political science, economics and urban planning, near impossible.