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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Hi. I am a college professor here and I just wanted to chime in with the following. It is fine for someone to major in the social sciences like sociology, political science or even psychology, provided that they learn how to manipulate and analyze data and particularly large data sets. This will happen at top schools. Someone who writes a senior thesis in psychology which involves carrying out queries on large data sets, following guidelines for anonymizing data and working with institutional guidelines for ethical data use will be very well served, and will have many career options in the field of data analytics . You all seem to have this idea that people in the social sciences just read books, but that would only be true of a bad third tier school. If your child wants to major something in the social science field, make sure that when you visit colleges you ask the question “what do people in this field learn about manipulating and working with data, what training is offered in working with data analytics and do your students produce a final product that they can put in a portfolio?”. And in political science this might mean working with electoral data for example. Lots of jobs doing that!  Someone in sociology might be working with census data or with data collected and cities having to do with crime, traffic, etc. there are lots of jobs now and local and state government for people that want to do data analytics working with this type of data as well. This person who keeps coming on here to talk about how the social sciences are a waste of time is working with extremely out of date and incorrect information and doesn’t really understand what we’re doing in these fields these days[/quote]

Aren't you the business professor?  I thought you liked STEM major like CS Math lol

make up your mind[/quote]

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