Hard Vs. Soft Sciences

Front 1

What are the four components for science?

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1. Observability
2. Repeatability
3. Measurability
4. Use of the Scientific Method, i.e.

Front 2

What is the relation between a control group and an experimental group in a truly scientific experiment?

Back 2

The isolation of one variable in order to measure a change in outcome.

Front 3

What are the four characteristics of the hard sciences?

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1. Fewer variables.
2. More control over variables.
3. More case studies.
4. More agreement over the definitions of terms. Some fields have unanimously accepted term definitions i.e. everyone agrees on what is “hydrogen”.

Front 4

What are the five characteristics of the soft sciences?

Back 4

1. More variables.
2. Less control over variables.
3. Fewer case studies.
4. Less agreement over the definitions of terms.

Front 5

TRUE OR FALSE: A major problem of the social sciences is that there are two few cases and too many variables.

Back 5

TRUE

Front 6

Is it possible to practice political science?

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the scientific methods can, at least to some degree, be applied to the study of the social sciences! And to the extent that we can, we should use the scientific method, else we will be left with completely arbitrary subjectivity, guesswork, and superstition.

Front 7

What is the hardest hard science?

Back 7

Mathematics

Front 8

What is the softest hard science?

Back 8

Medicine

Front 9

What is the hardest soft science?

Back 9

Economics

Front 10

What is the softest soft science?

Back 10

Antrhopology

Front 11

What does Whiskey Tango Foxtrot stand for?

Back 11

Don't answer that.