Comment by perpetuallunch

5 hours ago

> The subject has been very qualitative

What does this mean?

"Qualitative" means that the field had good conceptual theories, but didn't have sufficient observational and computational resolution to determine the detailed numerical values

  • Well put. And to round out the nomenclature for those that are curious, the corollary here is that it can now become much more quantitative.

quality vs quantity

seeing something new vs observing same stuff many many times to do statistics