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[–] [email protected] 36 points 2 months ago (4 children)

molecular biologists rolling their eyes

And on a more serious note, considering how much of science is doing admin, attempting to get grants, and data science, almost every scientist is very, intimately familiar with maths.

[–] [email protected] 15 points 2 months ago

data science

Oh god, just imagining having to tweak the spectroscopy algorithms again in R has me whimpering.

[–] [email protected] 15 points 2 months ago

STOP IT PATRICK YOURE SCARING HIM!

[–] [email protected] 6 points 2 months ago

My experiences have led me to believe the type of math someone is good at depends on their field (or what math they use regularly).

Some biologists are excellent statisticians, far better than me. I've also learned to never trust those same biologists with unit conversions that a chemist would consider incredibly simple.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 months ago (1 children)

As a pedologists, stupid unit conversions are my specialty

[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 months ago

I bet that's an unfortunate profession name to have these days.