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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