Knowing how to write a good study is a matter of experience more than intelligence.
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Luffy879@lemmy.ml 1 day ago
This is actually a pretty good parallel to programming
With an open source project, you gotta know how to clone a git repo and create a pull request
With such an advanced field as Physics, you need to have read other studies at a basic level. If you don’t know how to write a basic study, you clearly lack the intelligence to talk about such things at a professional level
IrritableOcelot@beehaw.org 1 day ago
shapis@lemmy.ml 1 day ago
It’s both really.
When I was publishing my first paper after sending it in to a professor for review a few times he called me in and went line through line of the whole paper for about 4 hours explaining to me what I needed to fix and why.
A lot of it were things that came down to experience and that no book education could have given me.
People that believe they can make significant contributions need to go through the proper process. But ridiculing them before they even attempt is not the way to go.
A good point that Angela made in her video from what. I remember. I watched it a while ago was that these crackpots always have grand theories. It’s never a small contribution. In that sense. A good filter is just asking them to show why we should listen to them before putting effort into it.
You think you found a way to make warp drives work ? Show us a prototype.
ameancow@lemmy.world 1 day ago
99% of the time when someone is ranting and raving about “mainstream physics rejecting them and driving them away” it’s because that person is an absolute nutter with more ego than brains.
I am not at all involved in physics in an academic level, but I have spent a lot of time on academic message boards and forums, people really want to help each other and contribute to our collective understanding of the world. The only people who get driven off are people who don’t share this collaborative attitude and think their own ideas are so special and amazing that everyone else is just jealous of them.
optissima@lemmy.ml 1 day ago
Lack intelligence, or lack education?
Luffy879@lemmy.ml 1 day ago
Education.