Natural Sciences Quanitification

2) To what extent can information in the human sciences be quantified?

Human Sciences, such as Economics and Business have always been topics of interest since there is usually not one correct answer as contrasted to the Natural Sciences of Physics or Chemistry. A real life example of this would be the 2016 calculation of the Indian GDP. A GDP, is supposed to measure the value of goods and services produced within a country in a fixed amount of time. These values have lots of different limitations in being quantified.

For calculating the GDP, quantifying the results have several problems. For example, in a GDP calculation, the value of the underground market hasn't been counted. Since a GDP is supposed to count the total value of ALL goods and services produced within a country. The fact that the GDP can't account for this is a stark limitation. Next, GDP values are taken from calculating all expenditures of citizens in a country. Sometimes, these expenditures are unregistered such as small grocery stores and don't get counted again.

The GDP, also fails to display where the expenditure or goods have come from. In the GDP, we can never know exactly who was produced these goods (Nationalities, Gender, ETC.) and we only get one penultimate numerical value.

Next, GDP values are calculated from using samples across the country. Yet again, sample values are taken from different districts and definitely don't account for the variety and distinction along all cities in the country.

Thus, as can be witnessed quantifying information in the human sciences can be very challenging due to problems with grasping all the variety and distinction amongst the country.