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Herb Simon on Numbers in Social Sciences
In Herb Simon’s obituary, the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette reports:
He had hoped to use mathematics to give the social sciences the same rigor as such hard sciences as physics and chemistry, but found that a frustrating experience; even with the new machine called a computer that was available at Carnegie Tech, it seemed that something was always missing when human factors were translated into numbers.
Maria Konnikova rearticulates this point in Scientific American.