But it’s the physicists’ job to find this stuff.
Polisci
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Diplomjodler3@lemmy.world 11 months ago
goferking0@lemmy.sdf.org 11 months ago
More astrophysicists
rustydrd@sh.itjust.works 11 months ago
To be fair, political scientists probably don’t know where 95% of the politics is hidden either.
Telodzrum@lemmy.world 11 months ago
Trick question, all politics is local.
Shampiss@sh.itjust.works 11 months ago
Sure, physicists can just keep track of about 5% of the universe’s mass. That’s their whole job, and they just got 5%!? Are they stupid??
Who are you to complain Brenda?! The only thing you keep track of is the amount of Oreos you have in the pantry
5% of the universe is still several trillions of tons of mass! Although I suppose a good part of that is your fat ass!
Ashyr@sh.itjust.works 11 months ago
Several trillion tons of mass? I think you’re off by many orders of magnitude.
Dasus@lemmy.world 11 months ago
You’re right.
Earth itself weighs about 7 sextillion tons.
Sextillion in the short scale being to the 24th power while trillions being only 12th power.
Kolanaki@yiffit.net 11 months ago
Have they tried looking behind planets and nebulas and shit? I bet a lot of the universe is just hiding behind stuff.
roguetrick@lemmy.world 11 months ago
Actually saying that socks and remote controls can sometimes turn into something that interacts with the EM field would explain a lot.
JayObey711@lemmy.world 11 months ago
As someone who spontaneously decided to study history / political science instead of physics, although I have been preparing to be a physicist the entire time, I can proudly say: At least I am happy. I spend most of my time doing fun and fulfilling things, instead of showing up at uni at 8 in the morning and arriving home at 8 in the evening just to work on homework. All my friends went into mint and they are stressed, don’t have time to do anything and just seem the worst i have ever seen them.
watersnipje@lemmy.blahaj.zone 11 months ago
Mint? Like Linux Mint?
Micromot@lemmy.zip 11 months ago
Math IT Nature Technology I’m not sure if this is germany exclusive
gwen@lemmy.dbzer0.com 11 months ago
summoning linux mint cult
pseudo@jlai.lu 11 months ago
Yes, Physics majors are a bit too hierachical with science like there were not doing non-rigorous math themselves but let’s be honest: on the other spectrum of real/fake science it is very very hard to find actual people seriously studying the field, like you have to go up to doctorant to find the kind of serious study you find in physic undergrad.
Sotuanduso@lemm.ee 11 months ago
Science politics.
RenegadeTwister@lemmy.dbzer0.com 11 months ago
stufkes@lemmy.world 11 months ago
Political Science is the study of political systems and behaviours employing the scientific method. It’s a sub field of social science and a very new one, at less than 150 years old Political philosophy is of course much older.
Knock_Knock_Lemmy_In@lemmy.world 11 months ago
Really? They have control groups? Blind and A/B testing? Hypothesis that they set out to reject?
I’m sure they have methods but are they scientific?
KillingTimeItself@lemmy.dbzer0.com 11 months ago
it should be a sub field of sociology instead of science.
Sociology isn’t called social sciences, though arguably you could call it that.
FilthyShrooms@lemmy.world 11 months ago
Yea computer “science”? Bitch you mean programming?
frezik@midwest.social 11 months ago
Depends. A proper computer science course is basically math with machines. At the highest level, it may have zero programming at all.
Software Engineering is, well, engineering (setting aside the whole debate on what makes a “real” engineer).
It used to be that universities crammed both under “computer science”, and you had to look at the curriculum to figure out which one they were actually teaching. They tend to separate the two more clearly these days. Neither is really “science” in the strictest sense, but the term stuck now.
yetAnotherUser@feddit.de 11 months ago
That’s why informatics is by far the superior term. Computer science is such a boring terms anyways, you don’t call maths “number science”, biology "living beings science " or chemistry “atoms science” either.
lobut@lemmy.ca 11 months ago
My geophysicist friend laughed at me for a little long when I said “I’m a computer scientist”.
I never took that degree/job position or whatever seriously anyway. I’ve always giggled at software engineering too. I just call myself a programmer.
Donkter@lemmy.world 11 months ago
Yeah, polisci has gotten as far as the “observation” part of science and kinda has to stop there for moral reasons.
exocrinous@startrek.website 11 months ago
The same is often true of psychology, but psychology is clearly a science.
frezik@midwest.social 11 months ago
What’s voodoo about political science?
Frogodendron@beehaw.org 11 months ago
“Real” scientists try to put a spin on it akin to “You can’t properly hypothesise, reason or make predictions about anything based on a sample size of ~200 countries that are totally outside of your control and are very different from each other”. Few more arguments get thrown into a pot.
Doesn’t stop political scientists from mostly accurately describing things, so no harm is done here. The harm lies within pushing that opinion on general public, highlighting the that “proper” scientists don’t see any value in social “sciences”, hence contributing to public ignorance about societal problems.
And with how lousy political views of “rational”, “logical”, “critically thinking” people in STEM sometimes are, it’s awfully ironic.
Speaking as a disgruntled Russian STEM scientist who is horrified how willingly some of his collages ate Putin’s reasons for actions both against Ukraine and within Russia, including against fellow scientists (WTF, where’s professional solidarity?!).
explodicle@sh.itjust.works 11 months ago
All the zombies
ghost_of_faso2@lemmygrad.ml 11 months ago
only a self inflated STEM-oid would take a joke in the OP and use it to delegitmamize an entire field of science based on vibes
having a BA in physics doesnt make you able to disprove social sciences, dont be like bobby fischer.