It becomes a joke after a while. When I talked to Poli Sci majors, I always felt like they had read an article and decided that was now their opinion. They could quote it, but not understand the statements being made.
Case in point, one kept talking about how they looked forward to seeing Africa while in Johannesburg South Africa. I pointed out where he was, and he said this wasn't actually Africa. Only bush people in the wilderness we Africans. He was being paid to help people.
Another kept telling me I didn't know anything about the Israeli Palestinian conflict. I showed her a picture of Palestine beyond the wall, and that it was mostly farmland. She said it was cropped. A friend in Israel had taken the picture.
A lot of the soft sciences either have people who assume they already have the answer, so the study is just to confirm it, or people who honestly want to do the research and find out information. But Poli Sci demands the first.
My university didn't even require a statistics course to graduate from the program.
It becomes a joke after a while. When I talked to Poli Sci majors, I always felt like they had read an article and decided that was now their opinion. They could quote it, but not understand the statements being made.
Case in point, one kept talking about how they looked forward to seeing Africa while in Johannesburg South Africa. I pointed out where he was, and he said this wasn't actually Africa. Only bush people in the wilderness we Africans. He was being paid to help people.
Another kept telling me I didn't know anything about the Israeli Palestinian conflict. I showed her a picture of Palestine beyond the wall, and that it was mostly farmland. She said it was cropped. A friend in Israel had taken the picture.
A lot of the soft sciences either have people who assume they already have the answer, so the study is just to confirm it, or people who honestly want to do the research and find out information. But Poli Sci demands the first.