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<p>Er, more likely, you engineers fall under OUR team. :)</p>
<p>well for the sake of this thread you guys are on our team. hahahah</p>
<p>the content and purpose of this thread was based on funny and lighthearted remarks and inside jokes.</p>
<p>dont be mean guys :(</p>
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<p>The Chemists already did that. They call it “Aspirin”.</p>
<p>heyyy this thread was for light-hearted fun. not major bashing. :(</p>
<p>awe snap!!!</p>
<p>@jane: Hopefully I didn’t come across as a d!ck. Personally I find Anthro fascinating. Especially Physical Anthro. Archaeology too.</p>
<p>I am with the engineers…sounds so practical to be an engineer. If I didnt totally suck at math I might be something like an engineer. Maybe in my next life…</p>
<p>3 cheers for short sleeved white shirts, a tie, and a freaky pocket full of pens.
team ti-89 FTW</p>
<p>hip hip hooray <— the three cheers that you requested. :)</p>
<p>jamesinho, Econometrics is the application of statistical and quantitative methods to study economic theory so i would disagree with you that economic theories can’t be proven quantitatively.</p>
<p>sorry team anthro looks like we are winning so far…
@jetforce the mathematics taught to econ majors at the undergrad level is pretty insufficient to properly model econometrics. we are talking on the level of real analysis for stuff like that.</p>
<p>import java.util.*;
class Economics
{
public static void main(String Args)
{
Scanner input= new Scanner(System.in);
System.out.println(“Input your major now Press 1 for Economics 2 for Anthropology and 3 for Engineering”);
int major = input.nextInt();
if(major == 1)
System.out.println(“Good major choice”);
else
System.out.println(“You choice of major leads me to face palm”);
}
}</p>
<p>//team economics to the rescue</p>
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so you’re saying that everything our politicians have been saying for the last 100 years is a complete lie? I never would have known…</p>
<p>that said, I’d say it basically splits the difference. Depends on what type of econ you’re doing to a degree though. I’d say math/econ, management science and quantitative econ fall more on the hard science side than the soft. I could be wrong though.</p>
<p>team ti-89!!! hahahah!! But jane is right, we do have give anthropologists credit too… And i agree I find biological anthropology some what fascinating (kind of reminds me of high school biology - in regards to the DNA and meiosis and all that stuff)… Everyone is different and everyone has their own interest and reasoning…</p>
<p>@JetForcegeminix: Sorry, thought we were talking about Economics, not Econometrics. :)</p>
<p>I’m hard pressed to declare either one a hard science by any means though since it still deals with human behavior and definitive predictions are difficult to make from what I understand.</p>
<p>@xelink: Er, you’re putting words in my mouth. Politics is not the same as Economics. I’m saying that whether a specific economic theory works or not is difficult to pin down. For example: some people will swear that Capitalism is the end-all-be-all, but judging by the number of times it’s been tried and dumped, apparently it doesn’t work everywhere or for everyone. Communism is another example. </p>
<p>As I was saying to JetForcegeminix, in the end you are trying to pin numbers down on human behavior. You can do that to a certain granularity, but after a point you simply can’t predict definitively what people will do.</p>
<p>Comparing that to actual hard sciences: Physics, Chemistry, Biology, Geology. You can make good accurate measurements down to the limits of your tools in these fields. You can make definitive predictions about things like the motion of a body, or the decay of an atom.</p>
<p>Again, don’t take it in a bad way. Econ is very much a science, and an extremely useful one at that.</p>
<p>proof: why everyone makes soo much while hard science majors make little…
knowledge = power
time = money
power is the rate of energy. thus…
power = work/time
substituting knowledge for power we get
knowledge = work/time
substituting money for time…
knowledge = work/money
solving for money…
money = work/knowledge
therefore as knowledge approaches 0, money approaches infinity.
therefore the less you know, the more you make.
QED</p>
<p>^LOL. Awesome.</p>
<p>Three cheers for the TI89 that never ever leaves my purse ;)</p>