There's also a lot of cultural memory from te times when computation was really hard. Much can be improved in the most-data-impoverished social sciences with th

There's also a lot of cultural memory from te times when computation was really hard. Much can be improved in the most-data-impoverished social sciences with things like MCMC or even bootstrapping of frequenting statistics, buuuut... statistics are tools, not the focus of social scientists (who design and validate their hypotheses in a primarily qualitative fashion), so the old ways hang on for a long time.