re: #344 LudwigVanQuixote

the difference with the soft sciences is that take psychology, you can talk about people responding in certain ways to certain things, but everyone responds a little differently. There is no “meter” in the field that will be true for all observers. This does not make the observations of psychology worthless. It does make them much more subjective and frequently impossible to write meaningful mathematics for.

Exactly, which is why the versions of psychology that are considered more ‘hard’ are those ones which draw from the hard sciences: cognitive psychology and more.