QUESTION TYPE: Main Conclusion
CONCLUSION: Don’t mathematicize the social sciences.
REASONING: Social sciences contain phenomena which cannot easily be reduced to mathematical formulas. In this they differ from the natural sciences.
ANALYSIS: The argument is making a limited statement about the value of mathematics in making social science predictions. The wrong answers tend to be overbroad.
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- The argument does not say this. It only says they are limited in what they can predict mathematically.
- Not necessarily true and not the main conclusion. The argument only says that mathematical predictions are to be avoided in the social sciences.
- The argument does not say how good social science predictions are; it only claims that mathematical predictions are not good. There are other ways to predict.
- CORRECT. Yes. This is exactly what the argument is saying.
- No. Not the conclusion, and not even true, necessarily. We only know that mathematics has been instrumental in helping them make predictions.
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