Alyssa Wootten - AoK#3 Human Sciences

The similarities and differences between hard and soft sciences, I would say is that the hard sciences are more accurate as it tells us facts and figures straight up and hard sciences show us how to go about the world and how to generally understand it by giving us evidence gathered from observed experimental research.

The things discovered provide us with hard evidence, and things we wouldn't be able to understand nor explain with just common knowledge. Maths is a hard sciences as its something that more than half the time, you can't argue with or change to SUIT you, its there and you have to accept it whether you like it or not, its hard. Maths is also similar to chemistry, as they also have formulas for things to work out and base explanations - these formulas cannot be changed. Maths, Chemistry and the rest of the hard sciences are always deemed difficult, said that they demand alot of work and though, and concern discoveries far from the routine human experience --- such as DNA.
I’ve personally never liked the hard science of maths because (yeah ironically enough) it is hard, and if you don’t understand something and can't figure it out, it means you can't move onto the next thing/question because its just asking you the same thing over and over again in different ways and if you don't understand the basis of it its impossible to move on, this is mostly why I don't like hard sciences but another reason is that if I don't agree on something it doesn't really matter.

Soft sciences are based on 'theoretical' knowledge which is used to explain anything that science cant, and of course this means soft sciences lack evidence and are not as accurate. Soft sciences help us apply certain things to our lives and other peoples lives, and for example sociology, psychology, political science are some of the soft sciences because they are more understandable to the naked human mind and free of mathematical complications (!!) and concerned with every day concepts such as interpersonal relationships.

"Journalists help maintain this conceptual dualism, say leading Columbia social scientists. It happens, they say, because reporters tend to rely on social scientists as sources for commentary about current events such as crime, politics, or catastrophes. The media doesn't give much ink or air time to new knowledge generated by social science research activity, as it does in the hard sciences. As a result, the public image of social science research is more fluff than tough."
- Pamela Frost

To conclude hard and soft sciences both help us everyday of our lives and opposing them to one another won't achieve much if anything. They let us understand things we alone couldn’t and without, mankind would be substantially less civilized and instinctive. Hard & Soft sciences are the key to understanding ourselves and the people around us!