/sci/ - Science & Math

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Your initial picture scared us away.

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There are 21 questions, and I don't intend to take less than a second per question, so no, it's not less than ten seconds. Also I don't care about the questions.

>>3934635

Did it.

>Philosophy, art, engineering, and social studies are more important than science

>putting engineering in the same cluster with art

ISHYGDDT

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ok I took your survey. what are you using the data for?

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Just to try to quantify our opinions on the issues that come up routinely. Heavily reliant on honesty.

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i'm interested in seeing the results

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Once I reach a representative sample size. what do you think that is? i don't know the traffic or population of the board

I did it, and in exchange I would appreciate it if you posted the results

Also lol'd at last question, and ofcourse strongly disagreed

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Since when does engineering fall into a category with philosophy, social studies, and art? In order to progress it's necessary to have engineers to put science into use and it's a respectable course of study. OP confirmed as a pure science major with inflated opinion of himself.

>>3934707
Don't know. It's definitely not one of the popular boards. There are probably a few dozen people on this board at a given time, and only a particular fraction read this thread. BTW, why the pic spam?

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>>3934707
Just post the results every few hours starting now.

First you need to define the following better:
"Free will", "nihilism", "God", "wrong", "more important", "choice", "immoral" and "true science"

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I might try it later anyway, and also thanks for the infographics.

Don't quite agree with the way in which some statements are formulated. For instance,

You put engineering, social sciences and philosophy into a single tier. We all know philosophy and several of the social sciences are quite shitty.

>It is immoral to eat meat
I agree with it, but not for the typical animal-loving reason, hence answering the question with "Strongly Agree" implies I'm some kind of hipster college student, or a woman who's on her permanent period.

>All atheists are nihilists
Define atheists and define nihilists. I live a life as an atheist, but technically I'm only agnostic (though extremely in favour of atheism). I can't call myself a nihilist, because I've never read into the stuff, nor do I spend a lot of time pondering about such matters. Assuming I'm still considered an atheist, the statement would be proven false, making the only correct answer 'strongly disagree'.

>Healthcare should not be free at point of use.
Depends on the situation - I can think of cases in which I would find it morally justified to provide free healthcare, and other cases in which it is not. Statement is ambiguous, because it lumps everything together.

>>3934760
well every question is incredibly badly worded and simplifies complex issues
it's to the point and in that regard it is entirely unhelpful

For all the people complaining about the ambiguity, that's sort of the trademark pitfall of the survey method. More extensive, representative results could be gathered through personal interviews, but obviously that's highly impractical given the nature and population of this board.

I'm still interested in the results of OP's survey.

>>3934760
You see that fucking trollface? Do you see it? Are you fucking blind not to see what the porpoise of this test is? Do you have retarded assburger to seriously discuss with OP?

Why do most of these questions concern ethics? This is the science & math board, not philosophy & circular arguments board.

>>3934779
This is the easiest way for me to post them

This is after 51 responses btw

>>3934780

>Hurr, look, I'm using the coolface pic as a reaction image, so I must be trolling too!
Just because OP is an asshat doesn't mean it's impossible to get some random discussion going in a thread like this.

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lol @ the amount of Jews on /sci/

>>3934760
>I live a life as an atheist, but technically I'm only agnostic

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This survey is obviously being trolled hard as fuck, you should try to appear more professional and do the survey properly. I did that once on /v/ for a project, and I got very good results in just an hour.

>>3934821
Ideally i'd set up a discussion group elsewhere on google groups or something and together we could work on the wording and formulate more questions for each topic.

You linked to specific questions. Why is those ones that make you doubt reliability? or was it just coincidence?

>>3934840

I was only making clear that I was basing my reply on the pictures you uploaded, of the survey results.

All of them are out of whack.

I answered it

76 responses

people are agreeing on human cloning
neutral on palestine
neuroscience can explain consciousness
marginally against guns
simpsons gaining favour but not significantly

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NEUROSCIENCE CAN NEVER FULLY EXPLAIN THOUGHT FUCK YOU

1. Human beings have free will.
Disagree

The brain, just like every other machine in the universe follows the laws of nature.

Reset
2. You can't know if God exists but you also can't know if he doesn't exist.
Agree

I'm an athiest, but it's true.
There is not enough information to answer this question, because "god" is ambiguious.
It's a troll's question, and falls under the same catagory as "What is the meaning of life?"

4. Humans should be cloned.
Neutral

Why?

5. Abortion is wrong.
Disagree

I could think if a few good reasons where it could be appropriate.

6. Communism could still work.
Strongly Disagree

NOPE

9. Macs just work.
Strongly Disagree
Self-explained
Reset
11. Genes determine everything.
Agree
My choice is probably more neutral on this one. They play a major roll, but only to a certain extent.
12. Human consciousness can only partially be uncovered by neuroscience.
Strongly Agree
Same reason as fist question.
13. Eating meat is immoral.
Strongly Disagree
I like meat.
16. Global warming is solely a natural process and is exaggerated.
Disagree
We do have an affect on global warming, with the emittion of greenhouse gasses and methane, but
i do agree natural cycles dominate.
17. Healthcare should not be free at point of use.
Neutral
I could survive either way.
19. Everyone should have the right to own a gun.
Disagree
There is no need for everyone to have a gun.
20. Earth is the only planet inhabited by life.
Strongly Disagree
About 15 years ago, i would have answered "agree" to this question, because no extra-solar
planets where discovered. Now, over 1000 have been found; giving a REAL value to the first
factor of the drake equation.
21. The Simpsons is still funny.
Agree
It's definitely not as funny as it used to be, but it bring backs memories.

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how?

>>3934901
Cool thanks for elucidating

>>3934901

you're a moron. No further elaboration is required, your post is the empirical evidence, and it's self-explanatory.

http://www.mediafire.com/?saduthgbv4p8zhi

100 posts theres the results. This was a trial run. I'll pu more consideration into future data collection.

>>3934934

you'd better. Also, don't start the thread with a picture of coolface, seriously, why did you think that was a good idea? I bet you'd have twice the answers if you had chosen a more appropriate picture.

>>3934946
True. Once I saw the picture I kept scrolling without reading the OP. I just read it now, and now I am too late. :'(

>>3934946
To be fair he's an internet icon and no one can resist giggling at his cheeky grin

>>3934949
that's you fault. don't judge a thread by it's picture

>>3934971
This is an imageboard!

>>3934971
OP should have posted it with pussy. Then I'd have noticed it.

>>3934951

YES THEY CAN WHEN EVERYONE CALLS IT TROLLFACE AND DRAWS, AND POSTS IT IN PUBLIC AND EVEN IMITATE IT IN PUBLIC, FUCKING SUBHUMAN SCUM.

>>3935011
brofist

I hate it how formerly good memes became boring and stupid by overuse on social networks.

>>3935011
I can't stare at it or remember it for very long before I start to giggle unconTROLLably.

>>3935011
It's becoming stale.

>>3935028

get the fuck out

>>3935028

YOU DON'T BELONG HERE

>>3935046
But his smile is contagious!