Think about social science as an area of knowledge.

Do you think the experimental method can be used to gain knowledge in the social sciences? Can we trust the validity and reliability of the ndings? To add to your ideas, read:

“Science’s reproducibility problem:

100 psych studies were tested and only half held up”, an article by Jessica Firger:

http://www.newsweek.com/

reproducibility-science-psychology-studies-366744