Respuestas
The problem arises when we consider that in social sciences we are not interested in individual phenomena, but in highly complex phenomena of emergent properties based on this individualism postulated by Hayek: relationships become more complex down to the level of individuals and then, between relationships of their desires, beliefs and actions, social phenomena of higher orders arise. Here a number of indeterminate factors begin to be inserted into a possible equation that respects the desirable algebraic form for a properly scientific formulation according to Hayek (1967, p. 58). Statistics, a central element in quantitative methods (the study of large groups), is ruled out since it is precisely based on the simplification of complex elements and does not conceive the relationships between individuals, rather, it would only consider frequencies related to these emerging phenomena.