ABSTRACT
The revolution in the quantitative social sciences begun roughly 30 years ago, and the full development and application of meta-analysis continues to change the landscape of the academy. The start of social scientists beginning to say that scientific facts exist in the social sciences is a recognition often disputed back in the 1970s when that ability was not recognized (O’Keefe, 1977). The challenge was that “law” like scientific statements could not be made about the study of human behavior, unlike those scientists studying the physical sciences. The argument often involved a number of philosophical arguments and objections to using scientific method for human behavior. The inability to provide a single example of an accepted counterfactual to that claim challenged the very idea of whether the social sciences event could exist.
