Been getting educated a bit. Contemplating the so-called historical sciences, whose data lies almost exclusively in the past, like archeology, paleontology, human evolutionary biology, astronomy, etcetera, in which the connventional "experiment" model does not work. These contrast with the so-called hard sciences whose nature permits such experiments, like physics, chemistry, etcetera.

Then there are the "soft" sciences like human psychology and biology which, by their nature, allow experiments but whose data can only be evaluated statistically. In other words, those sciences that can predict with great accuracy things about large groups of people, death and disease rates for example, but cannot predict with any accuracy what will befall any one individual.

Yep, being taken to school and reminded there are some scary smart people out there!