Quote Originally Posted by Sasaki Kojiro View Post
This makes me curious...I don't find those questions interesting or significant, what do you see in them?
Only the basis of pretty much all meta physics.
I think people have had a pretty good understanding of mass psychology, difficulty with large numbers, and what made a building look nice before science.
Nope, they didn't. Mass psychology and difficulty with things like large numbers are not about "people will trample on each other in a bid to get out first when the building is on fire", or "doing sums is hard". It is about appreciating the consequences of that, specifically why certain designs work well even when everyone is a blind panic and why others don't. It also explains why people will frequently behave in a manner that goes against their own self interest, which has important application in economics for instance.


These benefits you describe are technological improvements or of simply utilitarian value. I'm not knocking technology, utility, better education, better medicine, etc etc...far from it...but this is exactly what I mean, we all know that there are so many improvements in our world due to science that we try to apply the method in areas where we should not apply it.
Well it is not so much about the improvements themselves (although that is what you asked for) but rather the implication: science brings us improvements in our understanding no matter the subject.

Are you praising science for making marketing more insidious by the way?
On the one hand, yes, but on the other hand it also allows us to understand when marketing needs to be reigned in or to communicate more effectively...