Soft and Hard Science

3. If soft sciences really count as science at all. He says that "academic freedom means that outsiders can't raise the issue of a scholar's politics but other scholars can." He believes it's hypocritical because scholars can criticize other scholars on their politics, but people who are not scholars, or of that status cannot criticize them.

5. He says science is more than a "decimal point" or "controlled experiment", that it is explaining, predicting, and gaining knowledge of a natural phenomenon by testing ones theory.

6. Because you can't control all variables, or even any, and it can be very had to find variables. You can't stop and start it whenever you want.

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Math- A number system to count how much is "many".

Chemistry- Identify some property of a substance of interest, or of a related substance into which the first can be converted.

Ecology-An intuitive idea of habitat complexity is operationalized as what's called a foliage height diversity index, a single number.

Psychology-A "questionnaire that other scientists had developed by extracting statements from sources like tape-recorded doctors' meetings and then asking other doctors to express their degree of agreement with each statement" that drew conclusions that the doctors who had value in early diagnostics and aggressive treatment were more frank with their patients.

12. Because Lang says "How does Huntington measure things like social frustration?", meaning he is ignorant to the measurements taken, not thinking you can measure the social sciences.

14. He believes that soft sciences are more valuable because our survival depends on them. I agree, they are very important to humans living. If we find out whats frustrating humans, we can fix this problem and lead to a greater future for humans. I also feel hard sciences are important too, to understand the soft sciences and the relationship between the both.