> [!tldr] If you can't measure it, science can't study it. Science can only study that which can be measured. This is why [[Advancing Measurement Capabilities Advances Everything]]. Hard sciences are those where measurements are the result of physical analysis. "Soft" sciences are the sciences that require [[Proxy Measures|proxy]] measures, like survey results. **** # More - [[The Scientific Method]] ## Source - JOHN TORRENCE