Hard and soft science
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Hard science and soft science are colloquial terms often used when comparing fields of academic research or scholarship, with hard meaning perceived as being more scientific, rigorous, or accurate. Fields of the natural, physical, and computing sciences are often described as hard, while the social sciences and similar fields are often described as soft. The hard sciences are characterized as relying on experimental, empirical, quantifiable data, relying on the scientific method, and focusing on accuracy and objectivity. Publications in the hard sciences such as natural sciences make heavier use of graphs than soft sciences such as sociology, according to the graphism thesis.
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See also
- Hard and soft
- Demarcation problem
- History of science
- Philosophy of science
- Objectivity (science)
- Subjectivity
- Exact science
- Paradigm shift
- Physics envy
- Science wars
- Scientific reductionism
- The central science
- Human science
- Memetics
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