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+Is Poli. Sci. a science?
+- John Lewis Gaddis:
+    - Imagined prediction vs. replicating/reproducing results is
+      intuitive difference
+    - Five standards:
+        - Parsimony: smallest laws that predict human behavior
+            - Poli. Sci. has some laws, but thety aren't strictj
+        - Variables
+            - Nominal: positive or negative (did or didn't happen)
+            - Ordinal, ordered preferences
+                - Nonlinear, subjective
+            - Continuous (very wide variation, more scientific)
+                - political science has fewer, making it less replicate.
+        - Accounting for change
+            - Cold War wasn't accurately predicted
+            - Predictions by poli. sci. are typically bad
+        - Commensurability
+            - Common results and definitions
+            - Political Science doesn't have singular, consistent
+              definitions (see: democracy, war)
+        - Objectivtiy
+            - Poli. Sci. is often subjective and requires bias for
+              proper analysis
+            - But so are hard sciences like medicine.
+    - Concludes that poli. sci is a science because it
+        - tries to obtain these goals (it is very young so less adv)
+        - predicts or prepares