Would you recommend your college major?

[Ideologue]

How about designing an experiment?

You take a control city that's like Dresden (say, Columbia), and don't bomb it.  Then take another city like Dresden (I suggest Atlanta), and do bomb it.  Hypothesis proved: bombers are awesome and kill people.

In other words, maybe the petty moralizing and unwillingness/inability to quantize utility in human affairs on the part of the social "sciences" is what Brain's talking about.

[Eddie Teach]

Shitlist:
Ideologue

[Ideologue]

Is it because of Atlanta?

[Eddie Teach]

No, completely random.

[Ideologue]

[Josephus]

Given that my major was print journalism....hmmmm... No, probably won't.

[katmai]

Can you get a degree in that anymore Josephus?

[The Brain]

In academia history is an incredibly immature subject, several centuries behind more mature fields. Historians are clueless about how history works and don't even realize that they are playing at doing serious research and don't actually do it.

Do you want to know more?

How should history work and what would serious research look like?

Like science.

So how should the topic of, say, the bombing of Dresden in WW2 look like?

What do you mean?

It's not a trick question. Let's say a historian using the current methods were planning on writing a book or article on the Allied bombing of Dresden in WW2. He would gather data from primary and secondary sources, and then use that information to create a narrative / thesis that, for example, the bombing was a war crime.

How would a research approach "like science" research that same topic and come to a conclusion? (Non-rhetorical)

Any way he wants. There are no rules in science.

[Sheilbh]

Problem is that many employers will just look at what your degree is before ever seeing how you can synthesize data.

I think in the UK a lot will also look at where your degree is from as well.

[mongers]

Problem is that many employers will just look at what your degree is before ever seeing how you can synthesize data.

I think in the UK a lot will also look at where your degree is from as well.

I find that hard to believe.

[Ideologue]

Problem is that many employers will just look at what your degree is before ever seeing how you can synthesize data.

I think in the UK a lot will also look at where your degree is from as well.

I find that hard to believe.

  Do you?  Really?

[mongers]

Problem is that many employers will just look at what your degree is before ever seeing how you can synthesize data.

I think in the UK a lot will also look at where your degree is from as well.

I find that hard to believe.

  Do you?  Really?

What do you think ? 

[Eddie Teach]

Of course. Mongers went to Oxbridge and look at him now. 

[mongers]

Of course. Mongers went to Oxbridge and look at him now. 

Interesting, the thought would have never even entered my head, whereas friends with pushy middle class parents pushed them into puting Oxbridge colleges top and a few of those did get in.

The brightest of our whole year, another friend of mine, also never considered it, despite him being eminently suited to an academic career in science. 

I guess in part it comes down to class expectations. 

[katmai]

For my line of work? Probably not.