/sci/ - Science & Math

What degrees will increase job opportunities and what degrees are going to waste my time? I’m interested in physics and literature, both of which I’ve heard have no jobs.

>>11449458
That's certainly one possible reason. I'll present to you a simpler reason: you, as the student, do not matter in so far as whether or not you have learned the course material.

Promotions (assistant to associate, associate to full, tenure) as a professor involve teaching as one component of the selection criteria. This typically includes in-class peer evaluations and the post-class survey results that universities ask or require their students to provide after taking a course.

Now, after teaching for a few years, you'll see a strange relationship emerge. Your teaching evaluations improve for the years that you artificially inflate everyone's grades through curving (something that the department tacitly encourages as they begin to ask questions if they see your year-over-year grade averages drop). For the years where you don't curve as heavily, your teaching evaluation results drop. I've had colleagues at every major university across all tiers verify this.

Why does this happen? Simply, the same reason that you're inclined to leave negative feedback if you receive services you didn't like at a restaurant. I've seen objectively brilliant teachers (great researchers and professors in their own right, but absolutely amazing teachers) fall victim to the same trend.

So, after a while, you realize that statistically speaking, it does't matter. Most students aren't there to learn, they want a passing grade so that they can graduate and get a job. It's quite demoralizing, and I'd be willing to wager that a portion of the professors you pointed out are probably just jaded with the system.

>memester posts this in discord group I'm in
>think it's just a meme
>it isn't
>it's real
Fuck

Sup /sci/, dumb ass pleb here. Can you guys give me a rundown of how the algebraic functions work? I smoked too much weed in high school and now I think I might fuck up the SAT. Just the basics, don't need a lesson. Basic formulas and stuff to know?

>>5129651
> I don't understand genetics/biology

I-I am starting to lose my hope in /sci/.

I have a question for americans and maybe people for other countries, but this is not int/, so mostly americans will answer
Which were the more difficult and advanced topics you saw in your high school education in maths, chemisty, physics, algebra, etc, you kow basic science
And if do you think was good education, i mean if the high school prepare you well for university, i think all people here are studying or wanna something with maths, at least
This comes because i saw americans movies were the studens can choose what clases they wanna be, they have math olympics and laboratories, and for example in mean girls i saw 16 years old students learning about limits, i finish my high school and never saw it....
And all this shitty education i had make me feel bad, in my first semester in the university i have to learn limits, derivaded, integrals, series and sucession all in less than 5 months...

Thanks and excuse my bad english btw

DSLRs can capture visible light and when adjusted they can get from NIR to NUV, but I was wondering is there any way of capturing a hell of a lot more?

Like Microwave to X-ray without using multiple cameras.

Lately I've been thinking about the possibilities of an infinite universe. Now, I'm not talking about the universe in the traditional sense, which is the "known universe" I'm talking about everything. Past the horizon of matter that's the result of our big bang, into the great, empty void of space that is completely untouched. This space, which our universe is expanding into, is probably infinite.

Now, anything that has a finite probability of happening could, feasibly, happen infinite times in infinite space with infinite materials. So lets say that Dark Matter really is a thing (I know, making a lot of assumptions here but they're necessary for the theory and seem to have a fairly good chance of being true). That means that there would be an infinite amount of dark matter in this infinite space outside of our known universe. Lets say the big bang had a finite chance of happening, in this vast stretch of infinity.

The implication would be that the big bang has happened infinite times in different parts of this infinite void (Starting to get confusing, I know). So, if you were able to just keep going, and going, and going without dying, you'd pass innumerable stars, galaxies, et cetera until eventually entering this apparently empty void. You could then keep going in any one direction and hit another universe if you just kept at it. The resultant matter of an entirely different big bang.