Word: socialscientist
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...make a casethat "ambiguity" is inherent in the socialsciences. For example, an anonymous member ofClass V told the Harvard Crimson reporter(13 March) that the critiques of Huntington's workas pseudo-science by hard scientists in theAcademy reflect their psychological inability toaccept ambiguity. "I don't know that any socialscientist would meet their standards. They arepsychologically angered by it. They are people whowant certainty," the member is quoted as saying."They have no tolerance for ambiguity." Whoeverthe member was, his statement is very similar tothe statement by Seymour Martin Lipset, that "tobe a social scientist, one must have a hightolerance...
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