Sure it does. Water is water, no? Does water change, at all? Sure, it changes forms, but it doesn't change its baser self. It's consistent. Apply something to it and it will always turn out the same way, if done properly (not accounting for human error, of course).
Humans don't work like that.
I am now known as Flyboy."Hard" sciences are the "concrete" ones. The more "abstract" you get with the concept and/or execution, the more "soft" the science is. Of course the differences and lines between often blur somewhat.
edited 25th Sep '11 3:11:27 PM by Lock
Programming and surgery have a lot of things in common: Don't start removing colons until you know what you're doing.And now I am thinking of B.F. Skinner. Cool dude. Bit batty with how extreme he went with his behavioralism beliefs, but cool dude. You have to be cool to teach pigeons to play ping-pong.
If someone wants to accuse us of eating coconut shells, then that's their business. We know what we're doing. - Achaan ChahNot necessarily, whale. Would you qualify a person from another culture as "mentally ill" for thinking, say, that women are less "human" then men—or vice versa, for that matter?
Or how about this: are religious people mentally ill? Because, you know, that's not consistent across humanity at all...
Humans are consistent only in their inconsistency. A group of humans can be consistent. Nations, provinces, employees of a certain company, people in a small town, etc. But as a whole? Yeah, right.
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I loved dinosaurs when I was a kid. I told everyone I would grow up to be a paleontologist.
And then I found the Air Force.
edited 25th Sep '11 3:14:26 PM by USAF713
I am now known as Flyboy.The funnest game to play is "Spot the behavioral patterns!". Use this knowledge of the person and your own skills and manipulation is fun and easy! :D
PSYCHOLOGY. TEACHING YOU HOW TO LIE TO THE WORLD TO GET WHAT YOU WANT.
^Certain things are pretty fucking consistent with us as a species in regards to how we react to things. Like the bystander effect.
edited 25th Sep '11 3:14:27 PM by Aondeug
If someone wants to accuse us of eating coconut shells, then that's their business. We know what we're doing. - Achaan ChahSure, but nothing is a hard and fast rule.
Also: SOCIOLOGY — TEACHING YOU HOW TO MANIPULATE WHOLE SOCIETIES.
Zersk, word mix up aside, I wanted to be both! I was a dorky little kid. Then I got older and got lazy. <.< Man, I miss having dreams.
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Hey, if you play your cards right you could still do both. The military helps to pay for your education, after all.
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Joey, what is wrong with you that you can even interpret that in a weird way? o_0
edited 25th Sep '11 3:18:45 PM by AceofSpades
- Get two samples of water
- Freeze one
- Hit each sample with hammer
- Different reaction!
Or:
- Get two samples of water
- Strain the heavy water out of one and use that
- Use in nuclear reactors
- Different reaction!
Oh god...
...College?
Perhaps. I'm looking at majoring in history and teaching and minoring in sociology, though. I'll figure it out when I get there.
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You're doing different things to the samples, though.
edited 25th Sep '11 3:22:51 PM by USAF713
I am now known as Flyboy.I'm only in high school; we have a course here in sociology (psychology and microecon are next semester.
), so, maybe you have one where you are, too?
Jeeze, I go to the store and the thread explodes.
Labor is time, and time has value to the user of the time. Ergo, labor has value. But moreover, it sounds like you have a Theme Park Version idea of Marxian economics.
I'm taking issue with your 'consistency' comment. But that's not what you mean, anyway; what you mean is that each person is different, so one person won't behave exactly the same as another in any experimental scenario. And, of course, you're right, but luckily, scientists and mathematicians have developed a large statistical toolset perfect for dealing with that sort of variance.
For... astronautics? What?
edited 25th Sep '11 3:28:23 PM by Tzetze
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Aon: Ohh, okay. :3
I think of humans as "unpredictable, except when we aren't, in which case no, except maybe, although possible yes." :P
Anyways, sociology is cool. :3 And archaeology! :D And psychology. :3 And anthropology. :3 And biology. And physics. :3 And Astronomy. :3 And chemistry! :O And...
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