This is likely a historic mistake, but I’m starting to wonder if the line between “science” and “engineering”—which we’ve learned to bracket in the case of CS—could get bracketed in certain social science contexts as well.
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Could we say: If the practitioners are not clearly distinguishable from scientists, it's a sign that a field is preparadigmatic? See also medicine, and social sciences as you mention.
(I'm assuming you mean mainly ML for computer science. In other cases I would say that the distinction is more clear)
