Orders of magnitude (Signifying Nothing: how does saying nothing at all become so loud?)

Wednesday, 10 November 2004

Orders of magnitude

The sociology department at the University of Wisconsin is 22 times bigger than the political science department at Millsaps (or, perhaps more “apples-to-apples,” 11 times bigger than our sociology/anthropology department). I think (not being bored enough to count faculty in the sciences, which both soc/anth and polysci are at Millsaps) it’s bigger than the whole sciences division here. Yowzah.

Both* of us polysci types, incidentally, got our Ph.D.s in “red” states (and at SEC schools, to boot), for those of you playing along at home.

* As always, I exclude the dean of the college (and fellow political scientist), whose Ph.D. is from Rochester (that’d be in a blue state, for those with weak geographic skills).

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