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How can you define social science as a science?

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Science is basically collecting data, testing the data and making a generalized answer based from the reaction you got from your data, right? Well, social science is studying the actions and languages of humans and using that information as data; testing the information; and making an informed decision, or thesis, about the human race, based on the reaction you found from that data compared with other pieces of information.

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