This is the main reasons why social science is a ‘soft’ science. It is not just that things are studied that are subjective, it’s also that with even the objective things, obtaining a perfectly random sample is difficult.

THIS!!!

Also, what I noticed most from your post, although I’ve never taken a statistics class, is now much it resembles basic Logic -(philosophy school). Conceptually, anyway.

Is Logic the alternative for those of use who are lost in the mathematical calculations?