After seeing this sort of research, I sometimes think that we are drowning in an excess amount of scientific information regarding more humane things. I think that such approach will not let us understand ourselves better.
We need to broaden our epistemological horizons. The other day I was reading the wikipedia article on physical attractiveness; it is mostly a litany of controlled studies isolating various physical variables. This is rapidly becoming the only way we know how to think.
Science is a method for getting to know the universe. Fashion and politics are unrelated. Philosophy, religion and science are the most common ways to acquire knowledge. In religion, the source is the myth. In philosophy, the source is the thought. When philosophy needed a method to get to know for better the nature, it begat science. Science produces raw data. Philosophy, or any other method of thinking for that matter, are to interpret what science collects. But paraphrasingly-quoting Socrates via Plato, in Alchibiades II 144a and 146-147, without the knowledge of the good from the bad, information otherwise is useless, and maybe pericolous.
And, it's not established that Mathematics be a science, so, shall we dismiss it[1]?
