Thorbal
not enough ram!
Whoa, a grown up!
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Somehow I don´t know if I should be offended or feel flattered

Yea, sure. Soft science is quantitative, kinda. It's purpose is to descibe a condition and elicit causation. Hard science's purpose is to record empirical data. Not exactly the same thing.
Hm... I really don´t see the difference, sorry. Sociology, for example, is increasingly able to set up "laws" with a very high accuracy ( ok, it is not a 100% accuracy, that is a difference ) based on a certain cultural situation and background by collecting empirical data. If you know how to express this given cultural background into a set of formulas, these "laws" are excitingly accurate, with a certain uncertainty factor, which can be narrowed down quite a lot. The only difference I see is that in "hard science" ( I am somehow unfriendly towards this term
