Science Poll

[FayetheAspie]

I hated economics in university. Are economics supposed to be a "science"?

Technically. Though not what I generally think of.

 

[Tom]

I'm a big fan of piles of dirt (clean dirt) and social insects. So for me happiness is a huge termite mound.

 

[FayetheAspie]

I enjoy all the scientific fields that I listed in the survey to varying extents.

 

[Ronald Zeeman]

I hated economics in university. Are economics supposed to be a "science"?

My sister took economics after her undergraduate degree in geology both us agree economics is far from being a science.

 

[Shamar]

I hated economics in university. Are economics supposed to be a "science"?

Not a science as scientists would define it. More of a series of observations in search of a coherent discipline.

 

[Ronald Zeeman]

I view all the so called soft sciences this way. Either way Astronomy is for the most part observations,

 

[FayetheAspie]

Not a science as scientists would define it. More of a series of observations in search of a coherent discipline.

It never seemed like a science subject to me either really though it is classed as one. It is definitely not what I am referring to when talking about liking science. The so called hard sciences just seem more scientific somehow.

 

[Shamar]

This is a poll about favorite fields of science.

Is geophysics geology or physics? I can bore people to tears in three minutes talking about how electricity flows through the ground.

 

[Shamar]

I view all the so called soft sciences this way. Either way Astronomy is for the most part observations,

True, but astronomy observations can be used to make predictions which can be tested. When economists try to test predictions, I seem to pay more for everything.

 

[Levitat0r]

Computer science, the made-up science that some babbler Babbaged together. It's technically a lot of special cases of mathematics.

 

[jack_attack]

Astronomy and human anatomy were my special interests as a little kid! Nowadays, I'm still fascinated by these topics, though not as intensely. As of today, my favorite fields of science would have to be psychology and sociology.

 

[Xinyta]

Meteorology is a childhood obsession of mine. I feel like I have started finding it again. It's too bad I surpressed myself like I did. I would of probably strived in anything weather. Maybe I still can.

 

[Judge]

Meteorology is a childhood obsession of mine. I feel like I have started finding it again. It's too bad I surpressed myself like I did. I would of probably strived in anything weather. Maybe I still can.

It is fascinating. One of the things I really like about Nevada...you never know what our skies will provide us.

 

[Levitat0r]

Goth princess music:

 

[Laughingowl1975]

Ornithology and Astronomy. In the past I enjoyed ichthyology and paleontology.

 

[AuAL]

Is geophysics geology or physics? I can bore people to tears in three minutes talking about how electricity flows through the ground.

At a university that shall remain nameless, a communications cable was run from one side of the campus to the other. The contractor installing it grounded the cable shield at both ends. A couple of years later there was a lightning strike quite near the campus… A very costly mistake! Luckily nobody was injured.

 

[Ronald Zeeman]

Computer science, the made-up science that some babbler Babbaged together. It's technically a lot of special cases of mathematics.

Actually it was his very bright girlfriend. lovelace.