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7% |
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| Physical Sciences |
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3% |
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| Biological Sciences |
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15% |
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| Engineering |
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5% |
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6% |
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13% |
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1% |
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12% |
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| Fine Arts |
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10% |
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| Performing Arts |
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3% |
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| Applied Arts |
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0% |
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| Technical Work |
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5% |
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| Craft Work |
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0% |
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9% |
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larinon
Joined: 27 Jul 2003
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Location: Midland, TX
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 Posted: Wed Sep 11, 2013 12:50 pm
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So are you saying you don't know the difference between a hard science and a soft science or do you simply dislike that some people believe there is a difference?
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faintsmile1992
Joined: 18 Mar 2011
Posts: 295
Location: England
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Posted: Wed Sep 11, 2013 3:10 pm
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| larinon wrote: | | So are you saying you don't know the difference between a hard science and a soft science or do you simply dislike that some people believe there is a difference? |
I believe the difference only exists because people are afraid of hard scienctific standards, and sometimes political reasons too, but mostly because treating the soft sciences as outside natural science justifies presenting dubious research as science. You can see this quite clearly in something like the irrational response to Napoleon Chagnon. If all human behaviour originates in the brain then it is the subject matter of biology because humans are animals, therefore nothing in the 'soft sciences' can be understood without such reference to biology. 
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mdo7
Joined: 23 May 2007
Posts: 6729
Location: Katy, Texas, USA
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Posted: Sun Oct 27, 2013 1:49 pm
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I have a well, a background in biotechnology and if Biological science count as part of Biotech. I'm just surprised most of the people on the poll are people with biological science background.
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egoist
Joined: 20 Jun 2008
Posts: 7762
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Posted: Fri Nov 08, 2013 6:36 pm
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| TsunaReborn! wrote: | | I chose Mathematics as I am an accountant annoyingly I didn't pay much attention until it was to late and realised that Finance was smack bang in the middle... |
It's just that everyone can account. Yesterday I was accounting for the odd socks in my drawer. Sock fraud skyrockets as we speak.
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Chagen46
Joined: 27 Jun 2010
Posts: 4377
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Posted: Thu Nov 14, 2013 12:17 am
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Self-taught linguist here. I can read scholarly linguistics articles publushed in scientific journals with relative ease, and I quite often fin myself reading reference grammars to foreign languages.
I am mostly all-round when it comes to linguistics, due to my hobby of conlanging--I know my way around phonetics, morphology, and historical linguistics. I have very little knowledge of extremely abstract and high-level syntax, however.
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