[mlLK]

Your comment reminded me of this experiment where two groups of elementary students were asked to create a bowl for art class. [or vase or something] (I can't recall the specific object of the experiment)

The first group was prompted to create one bowl with quality in mind. The second group was asked to create a finite number of bowls, for this case lets say 10 bowls, disregarding the quality of each bowl. In the end, the second group's 10th bowl turned out better from an aesthetic standpoint than the first group's single bow.

Qualitative measurements are tricky, which is why I have a hard time listening [or believing] to any expert from any school that constitutes as a `social science`

[eru]

One hopes for the advent of quantitative social sciences. Hey, even the biologists are starting to employ math. (They call it systems biology.)

See for example "Can a Biologist Fix a Radio?" (http://protein.bio.msu.ru/biokhimiya/contents/v69/pdf/bcm_14...)