• ImWaitingForRetcons@lemm.ee
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    4 hours ago

    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.

    • MeowZedong@lemmygrad.ml
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      2 hours 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.

    • Kitathalla@lemy.lol
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      3 hours ago

      data science

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

  • FuglyDuck@lemmy.world
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    4 hours ago

    math is pervasive and inevitable.

    the only people that can escape it in their professional lives are republican politicians.

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      43 minutes ago

      I like math quite a lot, but I don’t really use it in my job as a language teacher. I guess there’s a small amount of addition and division in grading, but there are also programs that automatically do that for you.