For centuries, people based their beliefs on their interpretations of what they saw going on in the world around them without testing their ideas to determine the validity of these theories. This is called common sense. In other words, they did not use the scientific method to arrive at answers to their questions. Rather, their conclusions were based on untested observations. For example, in a scenario of the famous pop singer, Nicholas Tse. He likes to drive fast on the road without thinking for the safety of others. When one day he knocked down a person, he immediately shifted the responsibility to others. When people know that he came from a single parent family whereby his parents were divorced, they directly assume that he is irresponsible because his parents are irresponsible too. This is the assumption that most people always believe that children will inherit the character from their parents. They are subjective when giving this conclusion.

From all the points above, it shows that social science has a great extent to be considered scientific. Both are using similar scientific method to get objective knowledge.

In social science, there are some other methods which scientists commonly use to deal with human behaviour. Two of them are using survey and sample. For example, there are more and more people who are not getting married. By doing surveys and research which target to the selected population (the sample), social scientist can post questions asking them the reasons for them not getting married. From there, social scientist will be able to get an idea of the low marriage rate.

Let me use another example to differ common sense and science. When we look at a tree with our "common sense”, we are unaware of the fact that, in our thought, we are isolating it as an individual entity from its environment. Without any attempt at analyzing it, we actually see it as one entity, embedded in our total field of vision. We recognize it as a tree. We "just know" that, based on our previous experience.

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