What is a soft science?
The term "soft science" is sometimes used to indicate a scientific investigation industry that relies more on conjecture and qualitative analysis than strict adherence to the scientific method. "Soft Science" is often used as pejorative and distinguishes it from "hard science" with the consequence that only hard science is real science. Many areas could be considered as soft science, including social sciences, psychology and anthropology, although in fact these fields are a combination of hard and soft sciences.
In hard science, experiments are the central point. Scientists have created experiments that can be carefully controlled and reproduced, and use these experiments to test hypothesis and collect data that can be analyzed in different ways to collect information about the outcome of the experiment. Hard science relies on direct observation and proud to be as balanced and impartial. The aim is to get to the facts above all.
Soft -story may or may not include experiments depending on field and experimenThese may be harder to control or reproduce. For example, psychological studies have a number of variables that cannot be controlled, making it difficult to analyze data from these experiments or ask other scientists to repeat the experiment. This industry uses conjecture and more open discussion rather than adheres to clearly defined boundaries, facts and topics, and conjecture in soft science can be inevitable experiments and other research.
Psychology is often used as an example of soft science. Some disciplines of psychology certainly tend to be soft, because this science involves exploring the human mind, consciousness and other slippery themes. Psychologists, however, also managed to carry out very successful experiments to test hypotheses, D these experiments were clearly replicable, which shows all the qualities of hard science.
Some people suggest that the boundaries between soft and hard science are largely artificial and that the differencey among them they can be exaggerated. Some scientists agree with this aspect, prefer to distinguish between good and bad science than hard and soft science, and point out that many alleged "hard sciences" such as physics relies on huge jumps of logic and assumptions, especially at higher levels. If Einstein was limited by the limitation of hard science, for example, he would never come up with this theory of relativity, because the theory included a large number of conjecture and scientific jump of faith when he first came with her.