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Politics : The Environmentalist Thread -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: average joe who wrote (28892)	5/1/2010 3:13:32 PM
From: Maurice Winn	1 Recommendation Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 36917

Being able to learn a lot of things of an academic nature is what Google can do. Some people are very good at that and even in a science context which requires significant causation and logical understanding not to mention some mathematics concepts. <For almost all of us, one of the reasons that we liked science in high school and college is that we were good at it. That can't be the only reason - fascination with understanding the physical world and an emotional need to discover new things has to enter into it too. But high-school and college science means taking courses, and doing well in courses means getting the right answers on tests. If you know those answers, you do well and get to feel smart. A Ph.D. in which you have to do a research project, is a whole different thing. > As that article says, science at school, where children rote-learn what the teacher tells them, is not the same as inventing ideas and understanding multivariable interactions. Google is not yet so good at that. Climatologists are environmental enthusiasts who get government jobs in soft science. They are good at learning sciency truthiness, but not so good at dinkum science requiring abstract thought and complex concepts, tied together with logic. Message 26200823 Mqurice