Let me be, should I go to people on forums who agree with me? I am challenging myself challenging others... and it's fun. This is fun...
Fair enough...if this is how you get your "kicks", looks like you have plenty of willing participants.
I believe 2 people got something useful out of this. And that's 2 more than I could've hoped for. So it's a win in that regard. This post was mosted viewed last week with 6,000 and over the weekend another 7,000 views. There are probably a few more in there that have saved themselves that I'll never know of.
There's always something to be learned from conversations like this. The most important parts are the questions that are left unanswered on both sides. Stuff that keeps physicists and traders up at night!
1) The market is different because you cannot apply the scientific method to human behavior. Charlatans say you can. They made a field about it; psychology and created the "IQ" 2) You can use math. But apply with caution; “Probability is not a mere computation of odds on the dice or more complicated variants; it is the acceptance of the lack of certainty in our knowledge and the development of methods for dealing with our ignorance.” ― Nassim Nicholas Taleb, Fooled by Randomness: The Hidden Role of Chance in Life and in the Markets 3) Social science understands just about nothing. Waste of a field. If social science disappears tomorrow, world will be the same with major effect. Waste.
Also, read Nassim Taleb's Incerto (Fooled by Randomness, Black Swan, Antifragile, Skin in the Game) before continuing writing your book. Take my recommendation. Purchase each book individually versus the Incerto set (because cost is cheaper). Actually you can find the PDFs online for free, at least for Fooled by Randomness.
Read it (the book cover to cover .... when it came out and at least once more since) but much prefer How Markets Really Work by Larry Connors 1st edition. Haven't picked up new 2nd edition as yet. For every pro this or that there is a con.