From 5b594852070434278c5778abcef4409d3690a55b Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Holden Rohrer Date: Fri, 21 Aug 2020 17:31:51 -0400 Subject: more lectures --- rich/03_science | 27 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++ 1 file changed, 27 insertions(+) create mode 100644 rich/03_science (limited to 'rich/03_science') diff --git a/rich/03_science b/rich/03_science new file mode 100644 index 0000000..0ad2b20 --- /dev/null +++ b/rich/03_science @@ -0,0 +1,27 @@ +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 -- cgit