/sci/ - Science & Math

Yes, because children aren't good at grasping reasoning and social constructs. They can do/think what they are told to some extent but they can't foresee the repercussions of their actions. It would be difficult to tell a small child that everyone else in their classes believes Santa is real and they have to lie to them even though lying is bad. Then they ask why does everyone else believe and it is a herculean task to explain that to their satisfaction. It's easier to just go along with society until they develop the capacity to understand complicated things.

>>4184023
>doesn't answer the OP's questions
>says something really pretentious

Well, looks like you accomplished your goals. Nothing more to do in this thread.

>>4181529
>Right or wrong, the thrill of discovery is what drives science.
Yes, and if he was wrong about something that wasn't well understood I would've let him be. Unfortunately for his ego, he was wrong about something that has been known for decades so I pointed out how he was applying it to a situation to which it is not relevant and I was immediately pounced upon.

>Heisenberg's uncertainty principle has nothing to do with your problem.

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>>4181511
>Does MIT look at race in their applications?

It's a possibility, however they definitely look at SAT scores and for you that is where the story ends.

>>4181505
Once again. This has nothing to do with OP's problem. Similar words are involved and that is where the story ends. The only way one could see non-trivial connections between these things is by not understanding them.

Heisenberg's Uncertainty principle has nothing to do with an inability to represent information. It has to do with an inability to measure information about a particle without interfering with it.

>>4181445
Scientific discoveries do not occur as a result of the bastardization of Heisenberg's Uncertainty principle by a retarded CS student who doesn't understand assembly language.

>Archimedes thought it was funny coincidence that his bathtub overflowed when he sat in it.

Then he is an idiot for not immediately recognizing that he displaced the water. Furthermore the whole story of him using displacement to measure the volume and ergo the density of the crown is a lie. He used the buoyancy and a scale.

>>4181417
The problem is that it isn't funny; it is just pretentious. Furthermore it leads to shit like this...

>>4181412
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>>4181402
Why? Because the jargon sounds similar? It's about as analogous as someone thinking pig's anuses looking eliptical and then suddenly shitting a brick when they remember the term lattice rectum.

>>4181410
So everything you do in undergraduate and graduate economics has nothing to do with the field? I'm not willing to pursue it further on the promise that "it gets better" from someone on an anonymous image board.

>>4181405
Why not just do a math degree? You will assuredly need some number of credits in the humanities so you could just fill those up with econ classes if it interests you. That will give you some idea of the field whilst the mathematics will give you some degree of legitimacy.

>>4181381
You can't be serious? The world has a huge population; people will die from everything possible. The reason it's news is precisely because it is so rare to die from a single punch. Deaths are much more common in fights involving weapons. You are much safer just trying to keep the guy off of you until the fight is broken up, especially when it takes place in a crowded place which I am assuming it did as it sounds like it took place in OP's class.

Let this inane shit float by. The front page is for science.

>>4178746
>shit a brick when I think about the Heisenberg uncertainty principle and realize that state and location can't be measured at the same time because there isn't enough information space to describe both

Heisenberg's uncertainty principle has nothing to do with your problem.

>>4181363
>>4181358

Yeah, ya'll have my full support here. I took macro up to the 3000 level and it was all just ridiculous. Micro was much less arbitrary and much more rational.

>>4181353
>easy to be killed in hand to hand combat
Bullshit.

>>4181354
I would tell her to stop, shrug it off and then move away from her. There is no reason for unnecessary confrontation here. Why would you care what some random 18 year old girl thinks?

>>4181355
That being said I did lol at your post; it was a good one. ;)

>>4181350
>micro
>It's mostly just APM

All of my no.

>>4181314
There are plenty of formulas and mathy sounding things in the text but it isn't real math. It's not derivable from justified axioms, it's just arbitrary.

And when we went over things like optimizing your utility function subject to a budget constraint we didn't use the obvious technique of using Lagrange multipliers because there was an aversion to math in the department. Instead we did some bullshit with finding a point that satisfies the condition that the budget be tangent to the specific utility curve which although it worked it was very ad hoc and trial and error.

Examples like this happened all the time. They were just unwillingly to apply techniques beyond Calc 1 even when it was entirely appropriate.

>>4181297
He was referring to the email not the fact they give out A+'s, and since when is University of Illinois a top-notch school?

This is why people shouldn't carry weapons. Wouldn't it have been so much better to just had your asskicked? Pulling out a weapon is almost always a bad idea.

>>4181273
He can just do a simple check for the Xq28 marker to figure that out; he probably already has. Enjoy the fingering you heathen.

>>4181255
LSAT is an aptitude test. There's quite a strong correlation between intelligence and performance on it.

>>4181252
You're bad at your major and you take easy math classes. Why would anyone be upset?

>>4181250
>implying it's difficult to get an erection

He's going to be sticking a finger up your butt. Just sayin', no homo.

I'm not going to say you go to a shit school, however, the fact that your professor sent you an email to let you know doesn't speak volumes for your performance in the class. I assure you, millions upon millions of people have done better in more difficult classes. The only thing this reflects is your relationship with your professor, which frankly, nobody here cares about.