/sci/ - Science & Math

"Over the past three decades I have noted two disturbing tendencies in both science and society: first, to rank the sciences from "hard" (physical sciences) to "medium (biological sciences) to "soft" (social sciences); second, to divide science writing into two forms, technical and popular. As such rankings and divisions are wont to be, they include an assessment of worth, with the hard sciences and technical writing respected the most, and the soft sciences and popular writing esteemed the least.
I have always thought that if there must be a rank order (which there mustn't), the current one is precisely reversed. The physical sciences are har, in the sense that calculating differential equations is difficult, for example. The number of variables within the causal net of the subject matter, however, is comparticely simple to constrain and test when contrasted with, say, computing the actions of organisms in an ecosystem or predicting the consequences of global climate change. Even the difficulty of constructing comprehensive models in the biological sciences, however, pales in comparison to that of the workings of human brains and societies. by these measures, the social sciences are the hard disciplines, because the subject matter is orders of magnitude more complex and multifaceted with many more degrees of freedom to control and predict."

~Michael Shermer, from "The Believing Brain"


Told status of engineers:
[ ] not told
[ ] told
[ ] fucking told
[X] Sociolotold

>>2167547

the thing is this is /sci board, no-one cares about bibletardism except people who come here to impose their beliefs on others, and when you try imposing your beliefs on other people you get butthurt, lots and lots of butthurt. And then you get upset. But the easy option is to not start shit in the first place, on /sci the prevailing attitude is that /sci is right (the clue is in the name) ... and to get all utthurted mad is then only going to undermine all this 'atheists are horrible' stuff because the atheists are only ANSWERING you... if you don't like scientific atheism, get the FUCK OUT.

On a personal note I do think bibletards are just awesome. No matter how much butthurt they take, they come back for more.