Tuesday, September 27, 2011

Humor: Stuff Political Scientists Like #10 - a Degree from an Elite School

Via The Duck of Minerva:

Political scientists like other political scientists with Ph.D. degree from a good school. Those who go to Harvard or Yale or Berkeley are ‘well-trained.’ This means that they have successfully completed coursework in rigorous quantitative methods, not that they don’t pee on the floor. Schools with a good pedigree degree offer no guarantees on the latter. In fact, continence is unlikely...