Chloe Chan - AoK#3 Human sciences

Sciences can be split up into different fields where each one focuses on different areas of concepts. Hard and Soft sciences are categories in which we can place the different sciences under to determine whether the theories they propose can be proved in matter and whether they are determined or undetermined focuses in science.

Hard Sciences are areas where scientific methods are used to test questions and theories are made. They rely on hard firm evidence and put value into accuracy and quantitative data, they also try to find correlations between variables regardless of the possibility that there may be no linking relationship. The hard sciences to me can be defined as systematic and rigid in terms of acceptance of theories. An example of this may be how light intensity affects the photosynthesis of plants, where the results gained must represent the relationship between light intensity and rate of photosynthesis. .

The Soft sciences are areas where data analysed do not have to directly link to what is trying to be found out. Assumptions are qualitative and come from critical thinking within the mind. Soft sciences are not definite and are hard to test, thus leading to the possibilities of uncertainties. I therefore believe that in soft sciences indefinite assumptions exist and therefore it can be said that soft sciences are generally more lenient on its findings. An example of a soft science may be how mental processes of memory work in the human mind. This concept is hard to research and is full of uncertainty, the results gained can also not be measured and analysed with graphs.

I personally find that both hard and soft sciences are all different in polar ways. However, both types of sciences do provide theories and assumptions that may not necessarily be correct and true.