(04-11-2019, 07:53 AM)StroudCrowd1 Wrote: I will help you. A PS degree is a worthless degree and one of those degrees people receive and walk away with 100K in student loan debts and complain about the "system" because their 30K a year job doesn't allow them to pay it back.

I have a PS degree. I didn't name the major, and I don't go around claiming to be a scientist. Anyone questioning someone over the name of a degree is headed down a ridiculous trail of thought. 

At FSU, the only difference between a BA and a BS for Poli Sci is three semesters of a foreign language. There is more to the major than history; there are research projects and analytics, much like other sciences.  It does seem silly to call it a science, because human activity has so many variables, but we're in the same boat with psychology (even though most wouldn't have a problem calling that a science). 

All of the social sciences are attempting to understand human behavior and patterns and should be using the scientific method to arrive at their conclusions. That said, I'll be the first to admit that the social sciences is the absolute worst at following the scientific method and removing biases from their research.

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