My degree is in Political Science, but it's Statistics based political science, IE the degree is stats focused. There's two ways to do research, qualitatively or quantitatively. Qualitatively is like, analyzing what something IS, like using case studies, generally looking at one instance of a thing and saying if it's good or bad. Quantitatively, which is what my focus was, is using stats and numbers to research/analyze something, using large data sets and finding trends, etc.