/sci/ - Science & Math

[Anonymous No.8629791]

Hi /sci/

Let's say you were a housebound NEET.

What would be a wise scientific subject to pursue from the comfort of your hgome that you could perhaps contribute to one day?

Is the era of the lone self-taught scientific enquirer dead in an age of mass education and big research teams?

[Anonymous No.8629815]

Botany

[Anonymous No.8629841]

Mathematics.

[Anonymous No.8629842]

>>8629791
Gender science. All you need is a blog.

[Anonymous No.8629877]

>>8629791
string theory. Literally every ground breaking achievement you make is untestable and therefore valid.

[Anonymous No.8629917]

>>8629815
really?

[Anonymous No.8630008]

Drug dealer.

[SidTheMLGKid No.8630912]

>>8629791
finally,concentrated watermelonium.

[Anonymous No.8631026]

>>8629841
>Mathematics.
This.
You could become literally a world class expert in your field.
But your're a NEET hence a lazy bum so that disqualifies you from the beginning.

[Anonymous No.8631029]

>>8629841
>>8631026
It's hard to get interested in pure mathematics though.

[Anonymous No.8631113]

>>8631029
that sounds like something a brainlet who can't fathom higher dimensions would say

[Anonymous No.8631212]

>>8629791
That filename is misleading. Niggers can't be scientists.

[Anonymous No.8631494]

>>8631113
I mean it's difficult to develop a passion solely for Mathematics.

Chemistry for example is much more interesting, but cannot be pursued without schooling!

[Benl No.8631503]

>>8629791
Basic chemistry as it applies to nutrition for the brain.

[Anonymous No.8633226]

>>8629791
I would argue psychology.

Almost every early breakthrough psychologist came from an uneducated or somewhat loosely related field. They often just sort of fell into the field.

The materials to get into it are rather easily found/can be pirated. Its much easier to remember than most sciences since a lot of it is case-study or scenario or test group based research.
It ties into sociology, economics and business quite nicely.
You got all kinds of venture points as well, criminal psychology (which is useful in law enforcement), behavioural psychology, child development psychology, to name a few.
And obviously biology and chemistry, particularily neurosciences are the end-game tie-in.
And its nice to study it to get a understanding of yourself and those around you also.

[Anonymous No.8633370]

>>8631212
Had no idea I was on /pol/ right now...

[Anonymous No.8633464]

>>8633226
This 100%. You will likely find it interesting since it is something that will allow you to realize things about yourself and those around you, and it will prove to be useful in your dealings with people; you will be able to manipulate them into liking you by setting aside your feelings and just thinking about the whole interaction from a purely scientific standpoint.

[Anonymous No.8634391]

>>8633226
>>8633464

Redpill me on Psychology.

[Anonymous No.8634421]

>>8634391
It's a fucking opinionated sham.
The only real psychology should be neuroscience. MAP THAT BRAIN

[Anonymous No.8634569]

>>8634421
>It's a fucking opinionated sham.

doesn't sound like a very scientific critique m8

[Anonymous No.8634857]

>>8634421
It's obviously not a sham, anyone with a brain can realize that much. It's not a hard science, but it is still science. /sci/ fags are too quick to dismiss perfectly good science because the observed data is in a form they are not used to.

[Anonymous No.8634868]

>>8634857
> *observed data is in non-repeatable, often unfalsifiable form
ftfy

[Anonymous No.8634876]

>>8634868
reproducible data is something /sci/ is very used to due to its math/physics/engineering bias, but in psychology it's not about creating experiments in the sense that you would create experiments for harder sciences. You have to observe as much of the entire population as you can and gather as much data as possible and design tests with appreciable sample sizes and multiple trials (as has been done for much of the work good psychology has been based on), and then draw generalizations from that information on how human minds think and work. Then you see how good the generalizations are at predicting things about people, and believe me, they are quite good at predicting things about people.

[Anonymous No.8634879]

>>8634857
like completely irrelevant?

[Anonymous No.8634920]

>>8634879
No, of course not. Any theory or generalization pertaining to psychology founded on irrelevant data should obviously be dismissed as junk science. But to make the generalization that the entire field is garbage because of that is stupid. There is definitely "bad" psychology. But a good chunk of it is true.

[Anonymous No.8635153]

>>8634876
So basically to translate from this guy.
>Pavlovs Dogs --> Valid research that has lead to many great developments in the field
>Myerbriggs personality test --> More of a pop science that piggybacks off the work of Carl Jung who interpreted it much more loosely as a spectrum.

If anything, psychology could be much more brutal and efficient and scientific in its research methods and scenario building but it would violate tons of moral and legal ethic codes.
It has to be both legal and volunteered, especially when it comes to people.

[Anonymous No.8635371]

>>8635153
Implying you aren't an experiment of the super elite right now? To them moral or ethical means don't let the public find out but in 50years let them release the info because it won't matter

[Anonymous No.8635596]

>>8635153
Say what you will about the Myers Briggs personality test, but I think it is impressively accurate based on reading the explanation for my own result and the explanations for the results of people I know. Jung's work that the test is founded on is solid, I think, which is why it's a pretty good personality test.