Social Science Is Best Defined as The

question 44

Multiple Choice

Social science is best defined as the:

• A) Application of scientific methods to the study of human social reality
• B) Systematic selection of social objects
• C) Attempt to achieve certainty in observing social reality
• D) Assumption that social phenomena resemble biological and chemical phenomena
• E) Application of psychological techniques on social phenomena

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Definitions:

Interquartile Range

A measure of statistical dispersion, representing the difference between the 25th and 75th percentiles of a dataset.

Variance

A measure of the dispersion or spread of a set of data points, calculated as the average of the squared deviations from the mean.

Degrees of Freedom

The count of data points in a statistical calculation that can change independently.

Sum of Squares

A statistical method that measures the variation within a dataset by summing the squared differences between each data point and the mean of the dataset.