Word: social
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Whether or not the social scientist is pulling on a string with nothing attached to the end formed the basis for disagreement between Percy W. Bridgman '04, Hollis Professor of Mathematics and Natural Philosophy, and Samuel A. Stouffer, professor of Sociology, in their discussion on "The Strategy of the Social Sciences...
Professor Bridgman held that social science can never approach the certainty of the physical sciences because of the impossibility of controlled experiment and mathematical application in the social science field...
Professor Stouffer stated that human behavior is predictable, and disagreed with his opponent by declaring that "the controlled experiment is coming into its own" in social science...
According to MacCann, the winner of the $100 prize in the essay contest on "What the Social Sciences Most Need" will be announced at the meeting...
Tonight's discussion is the eighth sponsored by the Graduate Forum, which was conceived and organized last spring to study the problems and methods of the social scientist...