/sci/ - Science & Math

>>4859826
> The explanation behind this is that biology tends to be a science that has little to do with exploration, mathematics, and observable concepts. Biology tends to just be memorized and holds little to no value because of that

This is not true. Try studying biology. Some branches are very mathematical, say, simulations of evolutionary biology, game theory, evolutionary algorithms.

Besides, there is no necessity of math to understand nature in all areas. An excess amount of math is a bad thing, not a good thing. Math is difficult and takes time. It shud be used as sparsely as possible, but not sparser.

As for sci-peeple saying these things. Perhaps becus they took some boring memorization based biology courses in high school or something. Personally, my biology classes had no math in them, still had some symbolism in relation to various cycles. It was more focused on feedback systems, how cells work and the like. That's pretty interesting to me.

I think it's just a bad forced meme/troll.

The same hate goes towards anything not fysics or math. Strange they like math but focus on science, seeing that math is not generally regarded as a science.

Typically, the hate goes towards psychology.

>>4817705
Sure. Check out some of the wars with various smaller countries, say, this one:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1948_Arab%E2%80%93Israeli_War

>>4817697
>Ive got SAS on my desktop. Would be interesting to see, I'm not sure where to get all that data though...

Current GDP per capita and population data is easy to get. it is more difficult to get data from the past.

I suppose one cud limit the study to 20th century wars. There shud be enuf to pick from. I wud think that one can find population and GDP per capita estimates for pretty much all countries in the 20th century. Perhaps this sample is enuf to test the idea.

I think it will be difficult to analyze wars from, say, the 17th century becus there is no reliable GDP data. There might be reliable population size data.

>>4817694
>Turkey is also a powerful member of NATO, with tons of very modern western military equipment. Heck, it has one of the largest air-combat fleets in NATO. Syria has... a lot of old, crappy soviet shit.

Sure thing. I was just wondering how much of the variance one can predict with two such simple predictors. Can one predict the outcome of wars 55% of the time? (5 better than chance) 60%? 80%? I'm just curious. :)

>>4817649
> Smartboards are the worst things that ever happened to education.

We had them in my 10-13th grade. They were not very useful. Perhaps they are now or will be in the future.

>>4817599
> is military science a science? in other words... could this subject be discussed on this board perhaps?

Yes, also interesting subject.

I was speculating a bit earlier. With the Turkey and Syria situation. Suppose they go to war.

I found some numbers that seemed relevant:

Man power, measured in population size. (Or male population size, or male population size in a useful age)

Economic power, measured in GDP per capita.

Turkey:
Man power: 2011 estimate, 74,724,269
Economic power: $10,522

Syria:
Man power: July 2012 estimate, 22,530,746
Economic power: $2,802

Shudn't be be obvious that Turkey will win?

Has anyone collected a list of wars fought between countries and ran a simple regression analysis with population size and GDP per capita as independent variables and outcome of the war (lose, win, draw, perhaps in %) as the dependent variable?

>>4817616
20$ is the minimum wage in Denmark. Yes, really.

Anyway, i think ur way of dong things is quite well. What u probably just shud, is move to a better country. USA is a shithole.

>>4817499
....

"Further information: Phrenology and Physiognomy

Intelligence testing was compared with anthropometrics. Samuel George Morton (1799–1851) collected hundreds of human skulls from all over the world and started trying to find a way to classify them according to some logical criterion. Morton claimed that he could judge intellectual capacity by cranial capacity. A large skull meant a large brain and high intellectual capacity, a small skull indicated a small brain and decreased intellectual capacity. Modern science has since confirmed that there is a correlation between cranium size (measured in various ways) and intelligence as measured by IQ tests, although it is a weak correlation at about 0.2. Today, brain volume as measured with MRI scanners also find a correlation between intelligence at about 0.4.[4]

Craniometry was also used in phrenology, which purported to determine character, personality traits, and criminality on the basis of the shape of the head. At the turn of the 18th to 19th century, Franz Joseph Gall (1758–1822) developed "cranioscopy" (Ancient Greek kranion - "skull", scopos - "vision"), a method to determine the personality and development of mental and moral faculties on the basis of the external shape of the skull. Cranioscopy was later renamed phrenology (phrenos: mind, logos: study) by his student Johann Spurzheim (1776–1832), who wrote extensively on "Drs. Gall and Spurzheim's physiognomical System." These all claimed the ability to predict traits or intelligence and were intensively practised in the 19th and the first part of the 20th century."
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anthropometry#Typology_and_personality

>>4817002
I gave it a try and watched the film about How Microwave Ovens work. It is indeed pretty awesome!

>>4817408
>bashing craniology

U are confusing it with http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Phrenology

>>4817461
>I would like to know if its true that the science geeks get all the pussy. Cause I'm pretty sure young women between 12-25 prefer construction worker types. And that science geeks become wanted only when the hunks get beer bellies and the girls want big houses and travels. Or am I wrong?

Not true.

Girls like douchebags.

http://www.epjournal.net/articles/2318/

>>4817466
>Homeopathy
>scientific
>2012
>tfw there is an official homeopathy hospital in the UK
>sponsored by the prince

Read this.

Enjoy the fun!
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Animal_sexual_behaviour

Srsly, animals are fucked up. Not just humans.

>>4816682
>Say the results of a fair coin toss give you either $100 or $0. You can either flip the coin or take $46 up front. What do you do?

Depends on how much use money is to me. If i really, really need 10 USD now, then i cash out. If i dont really need any of them, obviously take the expected 50 USD chance.

Has to do with risk aversion etc.

TL;DR people shud go read this:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thinking,_Fast_and_Slow

This perhaps:
http://www.sfu.ca/~swartz/physical-law/index.htm

Obviously, go read Wikipedia.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Abiogenesis

If it isnt enuf, read some of the sources as well.

AFAIK, soup theory is the most well-supported.

>>4816382
Lazy way of writing ≠ or ¬=

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Conjunction_fallacy

>>4816642
>his is a biased word. It insinuates that the copy is not an exact one. Which shows us where you stumble: you still think that an exact copy is somehow distinct from the original

"replica" is not a biased word.

Yes, it is distinct, even if it molecularly identical.

>And that is why you should stop arguing, because we are not talking about inexact clones, and your arguments have nothing to do the topic at hand.

No one disagrees about them being exact copies, for the sake of the argument.

Favorite: biology

Don't know what "best" is supposed to do here. Asking what is most important for humans in general? I dunno.

>>4815405
The continent to my south is Africa. Eh.

>>4815399
I suspect as much. There is no neat category without any grey zone that corresponds to our concept of life. Oh well. That's how it is in fields more difficult than fysics.

>>4815400
>Careful, racist guy. Harpending also said that Ashkenazi Jews are the chosen people of god, who have a higher health and intelligence than other ethnicities.

They do have higher intelligence. I don't know about health. Intelligence and health correlates but they have lots of genetic diseases. Perhaps there is no benefit for them compared with whites.