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by tomprince 4774 days ago
Certainly, social-psycology isn't as certain as hard sciences. One problem, is that in some ways, they are much more complex than the hard sciences. So, to reach the kind of conclusion and laws that you get in hard sciences, they need much more data. Certainly, we can't draw any firm conclusions from this one study, but doing a bunch of similar studies, over several centuries (note that this study took 75 years), might lead to the start of social science becoming a hard science.