A place for majestic STEMLORD peacocking, as well as memes about the realities of working in a lab.
Rules
This is a science community. We use the Dawkins definition of meme.
I have literally designed and implemented aircraft parts based on inspiration I got listening to somebody infodump about an animal they were studying. Learn the things other people care about. It will make you better at what you care about and probably a better person in the process
Loads of new technologies are discovered because of people mixing disciplines that hadn't been put together before. A new perspective on a problem can make a massive difference!
If somebodyβs just following dogma and thinking within a box, theyβre not doing science.
I didnβt even interpret the meme as suggesting that one group of subjects is better than another, and I was disappointed to see so many commenters here thinking that their narrow or broad branch of study is better or more of a true science than other valid fields.
Except that the meme is very specifically used to highlight a distinct qualitative difference between the two "interpretations" of a term which leads to friction or miscommunication between the characters. This meme is doing precisely what you claim it is not.
This is a shit take. The meme is showing two different stereotypes of college freshman. There is not a qualitative difference between the "hard" sciences and the others; the biologists climatologists and psychologists I've known all adhere to the same scientific method and mathematical rigor I learned getting my handful of grad and postgrad degrees in physics math and compsci. The only real difference I've seen is that "soft" sciences tend to work on problems with more stochastic moving parts, making them harder to understand on average. They're not easier, you're just ignorant of the complexity and too arrogant to consider the expertise and accomplishments of others.
I agree that there is not a difference, but this meme is claiming that there is. That is what I am complaining about. I agree with literally everything you have said. The meme is trying to paint a qualitative difference, because that is literally the implicit context of this meme template. I am disapproving of that implication
I think youβre reading things that neither me nor the above image have said.
Night science rules!
Good for them.
Sure, I'd call it probably zoology, but whatever, "animals" counts.
Space isnβt a science either, itβs the subject matter for astronomy and astrophysics.
Aquatic biology - have an axolotl. More science can be involved than with most pets, nitrogen cycle and various experiments I did to try and remove nitrates.
Wow, "Tell me you never took more than high school level chemistry without telling me you never took more than high school level chemistry".
E: also, the fuck is "space"?
The one place that hasn't been corrupted by capitalism.
Except it has?
I'm sorry you've missed this before, please enjoy it in all its glory: Tim Curry is escaping to the one place that hasn't been corrupted by capitalism.
Compressed time.
Space is the final frontier science.
Most important nowadays is Neuro-science, well, maybe it also has something to do with animals.
That guy is so purple he looks like he chewed willy wonka's gum
Looks like a blueberry that drank too much silver.
Looks like there's a directional white-light source that his sign is blocking, and more diffuse red and blue lighting illuminating the shadow
There's a portion of his face outside the shadow, and it seems normally colored
I love science. Especially when it's followed by the word "fiction." π
I see them as perfectly compatible.
As long as she doesnβt say psychology
At least psychology isn't economics
Reminds me of a joke that economics is for those who couldn't cut it in maths and physics. Austrian Economics for those who couldn't handle evidence and statistics in economics.
Iβd take that (or sociology or economics,) over whatever batshit-crazy pseudoscience RFKjr is spouting.
Psychology is a fun science, but we get a lot of students who don't get that they signed up to study a science rather than for getting a degree in holding hands and going "there, there".
There's only three sciences in that list.
Physics, chemistry and biology ?
I think they'll find there's only one
I guess so: relevant XKCD
It's just math and turtles all the way down
Can't forget the elephants down there propping everything up
they missed philosophy all the way to the right, but yeah
Though im told that Philosophy's just math, sans rigor, sense and practicality.
probably by a mathematician
Yep
I don't get it, what is the distinction between the left and the right?
Computing
Me with my Accounting degree stuck in the middle with them
I love how "animals" and "engineering" are presented as equivalent in this meme, like "yeah I know these aren't real sciences or anything but I think they're cute!"
I donβt think your misunderstanding and/or crusty attitude qualifies as a failure on their part.
The creator was clearly a physicist.