it might technically be gatekeeping, but it's not arbitrary, or even a very high bar. Science just involves doing the scientific method, which anyone, even the guy in the comic, can do. What he's actually doing, and what a lot of "pop science" stuff is, is trivia. Trivia is awesome, but not really science.

Calling science loser shit is a bold stance. Aren't you a fellow believer and practitioner in the "immortal science"?

My take on their comment was that they know this but consider it their 'religion' anyways because they don't understand the process and so, in the absence of true understanding, take it on faith alone that the process actually works out

But the evidence is all around us even if you don't understand the processes themselves: Science built us a moon landing, religion built us the dark ages

I know it is a hard comparison to make, but if you don'thave faith in the scientific method, you get idiots like... populists. And they can just call "fake news" and be done with it.

Truth is not an absolute value. The science can be clear as day, but if it is not supported by the people, it will simply be rejected. You gotta have people believe in science for it to be valuable.

Same, I just like his soothing voice though

I've suspected a dyscalculia diagnosis for a while. Everything up to elementary algebra clicks with me in some fundamental way where I can intuitively do a four digit multiplication table in my head or a pharmacological weight calculation in an ambulance. It's just like any other knowledge base to me. But then everything after that, at least through the high-level trigonometry and general calculus classes I took along with the sciences that are equation-heavy like chemistry/physics, feels like I'm illiterate no matter how much I read. Meanwhile classmates in those labs were doing the same work as intuitively as the practical side of medicine comes to me.

Applied science is definitely the route for me to take either way. I like doing anti-Cartesian science with a sense of praxis to it. I'd be shitty at the level of programming or biochemistry it takes to be a good research horticulturist, but I can interpret those studies and use them as best practices while turning my city into a living lab for my politics.

*birbs

rule 35 covers for it after all

I think anyone at the point of learning those subjects would just call them by their name. From my experience, "advanced calculus" usually refers to introduction to real analisys courses like Spivak or even Baby Rudin. It seems nowadays it's being used to refer to multivariate and DEs, which I guess makes a little more sense but it still bothers me.