>>509783859>the unserious people always find a career doing qualitative social science workIronic considering how hard doing decent qual analysis actually is.
I can say from experience that part of that is that social sciences isn't just treated as the 'soft' side, but among academics is considered something you can just pick up without a degree, experience or any qualifications.
>surveys, anybody can do that>interviewing, that's easy just talk at the interviewee for an hour>also make sure to only phrase the questions in yes/no answers>coding takes too long, just write up the results from what you remember>book covers, my kid could design thatI've heard all of these from my wife's coworkers. She's the only actual social scientist on the team and everyone else always tries to second-guess her.