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Also, I still feel there's no rebuttal to the fact that these methods are useful in soft sciences despite some assumptions not being met and the fact that things are much more difficult to measure than in hard sciences.

I do believe people trained in hard sciences have better quant backgrounds in general. But I also know that grad programs in the soft sciences teach many advanced analytics techniques like factor analysis/PCA, many flavors of regression and classification, network analysis, etc, etc. And they're often quite good at dealing with messy data which is far more common in the soft sciences.

These are very basic techniques, nothing advanced about them. Blindly applying them leads to conclusions worse than those given by common sense or dumb luck.

Almost no one in the "soft sciences" is as good as your typical engineer or scientist at data analysis. Not even remotely close.

06-12-2015 , 11:29 AM

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cannabusto

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I don't disagree with anything you said apart from saying those methods aren't advanced. An untrained person applying those techniques is certainly worse than doing nothing. And hard sci grads typically are much better at data analysis.

Sure those methods aren't advanced in a phd physics program, but I can assure you they are considered advanced in nearly every business context.

Last edited by cannabusto; 06-12-2015 at 11:34 AM.

06-12-2015 , 11:32 AM

#29

StayShredded

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Join Date: Dec 2012 Posts: 60

I would advise you to not start a 3rd bachelors degree. I'm a dutch student myself and if I where you I would finish these 2 bachelors and then, if you still really want to do econometrics, you can get a masters degree by doing a pre master. 2 Master degrees are way better than 3 bachelors and 1 master or whatever.
Also, 24 is fine believe me. I know people who graduate being 25 who have just 1 bachelor and master and they end up ok.