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LeftishBrit

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34. I think there's a difference between different sorts of scientific backgrounds

Reply to Manifestor_of_Light (Reply #20)

Fri Feb 17, 2012, 02:13 PM

Feb 2012

It's my impression that engineers and computer scientists are much more likely to go for the 'single answer' approach than for example biologists, medical scientists, physicists or research mathematicians. I suspect those fields do indeed attract the sort of people who want to find algorithms to predict everything. However, I think that for instance, economists on the whole are more attracted to the 'single answer' than scientists.

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