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>Social sciences are sciences. They study different things to the 'hard sciences' but this doesn't mean they're not science, and doesn't mean they're not import
by logicchains 11y ago
>Social sciences are sciences. They study different things to the 'hard sciences' but this doesn't mean they're not science, and doesn't mean they're not important.
Something's a science if it adheres to the scientific method, not just because it calls itself a science. Given findings like http://arstechnica.com/science/2015/08/100-psychology-experiments-repeated-less-than-half-successful/ http://arstechnica.com/science/2015/08/100-psychology-experi..., social science may not be doing a great job of following the scientific method.
- TazeTSchnitzel 11y agoAll the sciences follow the scientific method. There's irreproducible papers in every field, this isn't a problem exclusive to Psychology. Also, Psychology is but one of the social sciences.
- Lawtonfogle 11y agoSocial sciences have some significant flaws, but they are not fundamental enough to invalidate them as fields of science. For starters, requiring a really good statistical knowledge to get a degree (nor merely teaching to plug numbers into some analysis program) and less focus on the history of the sciences that is replaced with learning the modern science.