Tuesday 21 March 2017

Natural Sciences and human sciences



- Natural Sciences and human sciences are two different areas of study, however with some common aspects. While  Natural Sciences can be defined as an area of knowing that makes claim about the natural world and attempts to find laws by which the world works.These laws are defined often, as results of experiments or tests, and usually claim to be true at all times, under the same conditions. In contrast, human sciences are known to be the science.The human sciences correspond to humanities and social sciences, but also includes aspects of psychology and even mathematics, as one of the key things we are concerned with is how we gather information in our study of human behaviour. 

Are the findings of the natural sciences as reliable as those of the human sciences? 

The findings of the natural sciences are seen as a more reliable source due to it being "Scientifically proven' and are identified as facts. In contrast to the human sciences where the information are regarded as "theories" the difference between the two was discussed in the previous blog post." fact is known to be a proven observation justified by being a repetitive outcome or having scientific evidence to support" while in correspondence a theory is an assumption based on either logical explanation or simply examining the explanation in a very focused manner. Theories differ from facts or scientific observations(laws) as they do not contrast with the Mathematics or Natural Science AOK and are adopted( deemed as acceptable) and used by the general public. Which is why the findings from an experiment conducted in a natural science scope are deemed as a more "reliable" source that of the human science one. In add-on aspects such as psychology base it's information of the action of one, however, does not have a scientific backbone to it as it does not relate to every single human, therefore it being a theory. 

 To what extent can information in the human sciences be quantified? 


- Information extracted from human sciences are quantified to a certain extent, while it is true that human science is linked with behavioural science and the way one acts, it is important to remember that unlike the natural sciences, one should take great precaution before concluding a statement. As psychology is a theory based aspect and not all observations made from reproaches relate to everyone. So this limits the reliably and unfortunately does not allow the information be quantified.  Examples of how we try to quantify aspects of human behaviour: I.Q. = how we think and what we "know" Personality Tests = how we act, On the other hand, can quantifying behaviour actually help gain knowledge? Scientists are quantifying human behaviours which can help autistic children and even make technology more realistic.  Quantify and categorising people using tests in the human sciences can limit them 

Enrichment programs in education isolate students while quantifying them as special or more knowledgeable




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