Re:Regular degrees are simpler (Score 1)

If i write something in Latin, it's either grammatically right or wrong. There are a few ways to express the same idea, but there are absolute standards of right and wrong in grammar. I do agree that, in some cases, should you have a relatively compelling argument, you are home safe. However, try doing a fourth year seminar on ancient epistemology or history and you'll know the work you have to put into something. You argument has to be rock solid, based on facts you've spent weeks gathering and interpretting. Then present that to a group of ten people who would like nothing better than to prove you wrong. Just because something compiles doesn't mean it's right or well done. Think about all the bugs in the software we use every day. Many people can write a program to accomplish task X, but are they all efficient, bug free and secure? Hell no. You are also right about proving God's existence, but that is exacly my point. With sciences and math, you are generally aiming at a single, correct answer. There are variables, yes, but generally there is an agreed upon right and wrong answer. In many humanistic disciplines, it is so much more complex than that. We generally have to deal with constantly changing variables, imperfect information, intentionally misleading information, etc, all of which must be considered and understood on so many levels to get a truly defendable answer. I'm not saying that sciences are not difficult, only that humanities can be damn hard, too. I'm sure this is not your situation, but it drives me crazy when some IT "specialist" or engineer who took Intro to Psych and Sociology 1000 tells me that my major was easy.