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a) what problems do you expect will arise when applying the scientific method to the Pentagon's knowledge of flying saucers? [Assume that any good sociologist could design a research study along a continuum from RCTs to ethnographies. As you have seen, Esther Duflo conducts RCTs; Devah Pager follows experimental design in her practical field audit of Forrest Stuart does ethnography.]

b) Is the description of human behavior and social action in what the Pentagon knows about flying saucers? Consistent with the way sociologists view human nature [after the Cognitive Revolution and the creation of culture; or given the evolution of behavioral modernism if you prefer Rutherford's terminology]?