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Originally posted by Domesticated On this, that's the cunt thing about humanities. I wrote some poetry which I didn't think was particularly good, and the teacher marked it well. Or the reverse can be true.

At my undergraduate institution nearly every Phi Beta Kappa was a math/science major, because under those grading schemes perfection is possible. Every single 4.0 was graded on an objective system where an A wasn't determined by how much you knew, but based on what you knew relative to your peers. In other words, in every test, someone received an A.

The thing about Social Sciences and Humanities is that subjective grading means professors don't have to give A's. In fact, many don't. I had numerous professors who allotted a finite amount of A-'s (3) per class per semester. A's were strictly on a "the professor could have written this paper" basis.

The amusing part was that the Humanities and Social Sciences outnumbered the Math/Science majors more than 2 to 1 in post-grad fellowships and research grants.

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Originally posted by Zild I'm talking about getting an exam and looking at a problem and saying "hmm I have no idea how to solve this but someone figured out out before me so I can too"

Obviously you didn't spend enough time studying if you couldn't remember the necessary equation.

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Originally posted by SuspicionVandit Aliens don't care about poetry or JR Tolkein. They want to see our space lasers and warp drives.

Can't argue with that.

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Originally posted by Lebezniatnikov Obviously you didn't spend enough time studying if you couldn't remember the necessary equation.

...and I tell you why he's losing this argument with you? It's because he was only ever taught how to solve equations!

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Originally posted by Zild Nope sorry. I actually do much better in classes that aren't science or math since they're so easy.

Seriously, you're acting like a stuck up douchebag. Someone once told me that people who are really smart don't try to prove they are. Get over yourself.

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Originally posted by Domesticated ...and I tell you why he's losing this argument with you? It's because he was only ever taught how to solve equations!

I take his silence as indicative of the following thought process.

"I don't know how to win this argument. I have no idea how to solve this but someone has done it before so it must be possible... if only I can use my creativity to think of a way other than the one used in class by the professor."

Problem is, the assumption "someone has done it before" is in this case faulty.

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By the way, about your management post, I didn't ignore that.

I read it and I understood what you were trying to say. Who knows, maybe management can be taught effectively. I more have an issue with the fact that people assume someone can manage or market at a company because they have a degree, which is not the case at all.

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Originally posted by Domesticated By the way, about your management post, I didn't ignore that. I read it and I understood what you were trying to say. Who knows, maybe management can be taught effectively. I more have an issue with the fact that people assume someone can manage or market at a company because they have a degree, which is not the case at all.

No, I agree that management can be an innate skill - my point was merely that intuition isn't the whole game. In fact, false confidence is problematic.

But the best managers emulate managers they've seen in practice rather than those they've read about, on that I think we agree.

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Originally posted by Zild Probably proves you actually learned something and can problem solve instead of bullshit your way through a degree.

Bullshit skills are useful if you think about it. Very applicable if you're in sales

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