09/04/2013

Why does social science have such a hard job explaining itself?

Why does social science have such a hard job explaining itself? | Higher Education Network | Guardian Professional:

Albert Einstein once put it "understanding physics is child's play compared to understanding child's play".

(Ironically, political science is one of the few behavioural or social sciences that makes accurate predictions specifically about elections results. Economics, famously, has no such track record. AS)

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