Sociologists do not often make predictions because:
A. they implicitly acknowledge the impossibility of foretelling the future with any accuracy.
B. they acknowledge the unlikelihood that their statistics are accurate.
C. making predictions leads to self-fulfilling prophecies.
D. their government funding would stop if they were wrong.
Answer: A
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