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Just because statistics is involved doesn't make Social Science a 'hard' science


Indeed.

> Softer fields are likely to be found, even if perhaps at lower frequencies, in the physical and the biological sciences. Conversely, there is no reason why high-consensus fields should not exist in the social sciences, too.

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3694152/#!po=0....




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