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Originally Posted by xkai Actually political science has quite a it of math...especially game theory...to the extent that it is considered an applied form of it. The discipline really isn't the study of "politics," it's more of a study of power and the balance and means of attaining it, and predicting the future given current information and models. It's kind of the antithesis of history where you study the past to understand the present...rather you study today to predict tomorrow. |
That's good to know xkai, I can see the science in that. But shouldn't we study yesterday to predict tomorrow? Because isn't it like that Propellerheads song, "It's all just a little bit of history repeating!"