Message from @blueorbit

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2020-12-22 19:23:43 UTC  

Econ is considered a social science. Like psychology.

2020-12-22 19:24:08 UTC  

Prosecutors after Guilianis emails the house of cards is in danger

2020-12-22 19:24:20 UTC  

Soft science. Like chiropractic...or voodoo.

2020-12-22 19:24:27 UTC  

Lol.

2020-12-22 19:24:48 UTC  

Yes. It is not a Pure, natural, or physical science.

2020-12-22 19:25:14 UTC  

Yup. Like game theory (economics) or pricing theory (microeconomics).

2020-12-22 19:25:47 UTC  

Whenever people say economics they usually mean macroeconomics. People use other branches of economics all of the time without thinking about it.

2020-12-22 19:26:10 UTC  

Some universities give two different types of economics degrees - one for Bachelors of Arts and one for Bachelors of Science. I’m not sure what the difference is, probably the amount of statistics/math courses?

2020-12-22 19:26:22 UTC  

A huge difference.

2020-12-22 19:26:39 UTC  

At my university you had to take extra math to get a BSc

2020-12-22 19:26:53 UTC  

I’m sure there is - just unsure what and to what degree.

2020-12-22 19:26:54 UTC  

One is more mathematical models, the other is sort of more relative to thought.

2020-12-22 19:26:57 UTC  

They have the same in Psychology.

2020-12-22 19:27:14 UTC  

That’s interesting, I haven’t seen that yet!

2020-12-22 19:27:30 UTC  

But even the BAs took 3 stats classes including econometrics so I wouldn’t say they were soft on modeling.

2020-12-22 19:27:59 UTC  

I doubt most university students could pass an econometrics class.

2020-12-22 19:28:06 UTC  

Especially in Masters Programs. MA or MS in Psychology.

2020-12-22 19:28:34 UTC  

Idk, I’m still ticked I didn’t get a BS for my Philosophy degree. Oh, wait...

2020-12-22 19:29:30 UTC  

I appreciate that. I thought he also started out condescending and I didn't appreciate it. I tried to respond by explaining in more detail precisely what my definition of debt monetization was with the hopes that he would come back and say okay well that's not really debt monetization that's called something else and debt monetization is really this and the difference between what you call that monetization and what is true debt monetization is such and such. but the last the conversation did not proceed that way. Looks like he has since blocked me and now has stated that if I don't know what MMT means that I'm talking out by rear end. In which case maybe the poop emoji was the correct one to respond with. I probably should have picked the unicorn emoji instead. Live and learn.

2020-12-22 19:29:54 UTC  

I took some philosophy classes. I couldn’t stand it though. I had all As but it made me ill to listen to some of the lectures. I think that’s probably a personality flaw. 😂

2020-12-22 19:30:13 UTC  

Sounds like you got the full experience

2020-12-22 19:30:23 UTC  

If you want really dry stuff, take propositional calculus.

2020-12-22 19:30:35 UTC  

Deductive logic, wew.

2020-12-22 19:30:54 UTC  

@blueorbit a MA would be more inline with Counseling and MS more with Research or Teaching.

2020-12-22 19:31:19 UTC  

Real analysis or topology?

2020-12-22 19:32:04 UTC  

Less math.

2020-12-22 19:32:14 UTC  

(I am 100% joking, I think everyone should take at least one philosophy class 😉

2020-12-22 19:32:49 UTC  

I took enough that they said if I took 2 more I would be awarded a second Bachelors degree.

2020-12-22 19:32:49 UTC  

@Gypsy, you just advanced to level 6!

2020-12-22 19:32:55 UTC  

And I still passed.

2020-12-22 19:33:11 UTC  

Meaning I passed on the second degree.

2020-12-22 19:34:30 UTC  

The Cost of Framing can get expensive!....lol

2020-12-22 19:34:37 UTC  

It’s highly subjective in how it’s taught, which is unfortunate but necessary - much more professor-dependent than content-dependent

2020-12-22 19:35:01 UTC  

Nothing in relation to the cost of the degree itself, tbh

2020-12-22 19:35:16 UTC  

It's like $200-$400 to $40 000+

2020-12-22 19:35:52 UTC  

That makes a lot of sense to me, thank you! I’m guessing research and experiment procedures and controls and other hard science approaches are part of the MS curriculum.

2020-12-22 19:36:10 UTC  

Agree. I was lucky enough to receive a Fellowship.

2020-12-22 19:36:15 UTC  

And most degrees will be like $120 000+

2020-12-22 19:36:19 UTC  

That would only leave me with $200 after this stimulus package

2020-12-22 19:37:07 UTC  

Yes heavy on Math and Statistics.

2020-12-22 19:37:44 UTC  

It was just difficult to read Marx seriously and then go do economics homework. The only classes I liked were eastern philosophy classes which really could have been religious classes. Also the intro classes where we read Humes and Locke. I didn’t care for Kant, Hegel, etc. I thought it was interesting how they thought but also so impractical. I went to school when I was 27 so I wasn’t as abstract as most of the other students.