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how does political scientists attempt to quantify data, manipulate data statistically, and attempt to validate hypotheses.

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Political scientists, just like all others, try to accumulate as much data as possible and based on this data they try to make a theory, that is, validate a hypotheses. They manipulate data in all possible ways so as to have it suit their needs, without changing or plagiarizing the data itself.
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