• Question: what is your least favorite strand of science

    Asked by endermanatee10 to Emma, Karla, Shane, Stephen, Yang on 9 Nov 2017. This question was also asked by 792enek27, 779enek22.
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      Emma Hanley answered on 9 Nov 2017:

      I don’t really have a least favorite as I cannot judge different strands when I have not had a chance learn about them.

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      Shane Mcdonagh answered on 9 Nov 2017:

      I love energy, space, and machines! I also really love nature and learning about different animals so that’s physics and biology covered…. I guess that leaves chemistry as my least favourite but maybe that’s only because it’s the one I know least about. In reality all the sciences overlap a lot!

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      Stephen Rhatigan answered on 9 Nov 2017:

      That’s a tough question. I don’t really have a least favourite but I have tried things that I didn’t like (chemistry experiments mostly). Sometimes I found that I didn’t like something until I understood it better and realised its use.
      So like Emma said, it’s better not to judge something like a branch of science unless you can say that you’ve at least tried to understand it.
      I’m sure that’s not a satisfactory answer so:
      I studied biology and chemistry for the leaving cert and I studied physics in university. My least favourite of these was chemistry. Probably because we were in an old, mouldy lab looking at equally mouldy books and doing smelly, messy experiments that never worked.

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      Karla Dussan answered on 9 Nov 2017:

      Rather than saying least favorite, I’d say least understood strand of science for me is psychology. I have a certain careful respect for that field, because researchers in that field have to deal with the least reliable test subject: the human mind!!!! There is a lot of statistics involved, and then in their studies they may come to some conclusion of the type “if someone is like this, there is an xx% chance that they do this other thing”, which is something really hard to grasp … and also connect to what goes on in our bodies from a biological point of view.

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