Scientific misconceptions

What common misconceptions grind your gears?

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- Mixing up voltage and electrical current
- Mixing up hardness and toughness of a material
- All kinds of misconceptions about nuclear power and nuclear physics in general

>study IT at university
>family thinks you know everything about PC, phones, smart TV....
>be made fun of, because you dont know about that one specific problem with specific software they asked you about during family dinner
>"How come you dont know? What are you studying IT for? Ha ha ha."

I know thats not the kind of grind you wanted to read. But whatever.

>science is about proof or fact
no it's about models and when pushed for an answer approximations
>all sciences are equal
no pure math is some autistic artform, physics is brainlets who couldn't into math, everything else is fighting for scrap that drop from the theory lords above
>scientists are good people
no they are just as shitty as everyone else
>a phd means something
it means you can write 500 pages of incoherent garbage in 3-5 years

I'm a computer scientist, and people assume that it means I'm a programmer. Programming is something any idiot can do, I self-learned it when I was 12.

That's what you get

you need to drink 2 liters of water a day

"computer scientist"
Yeah, I watch porn also.

>quantum mechanics is not related to consciousness

>it means you can write 500 pages of incoherent garbage in 3-5 years
Yeah but in my country you get the right to wear a sword and a top hat formally.

>quantum mechanics is related to consciousness

>supervisors know their shit

Light year is a unit of distance ,not a unit of time.

>quantum mechanics is

>the Planck length is the smallest distance in the universe
Instant retard red flag.

>people who think because it's a "theory" it's just a guess
>people who think because it's a "theory" it's 100% undeniable truth

>people slapping the word "quantum" on every word

>That primates can't speak languages
tfw I actually have German bonobo penpal
NWO doesn't want you to know
>Chameleons can change skin color
documentaries fake it and don't show you how they just change clothes to make it look like they have some bionic skin ability

who else woke here

Quantum Slapping

quantum masturbation is the shit

How does non-deterministic nutting feel like?

theory used interchangeably with hypothesis
fucks the scientific method so much

brainlet detected

I have the same situation, even though I'm a bio student.

>how planes fly?
>muh bernoulli principle

i want to punch them in face.

people think the yolk in an egg magically turns into a whole chick, the yolk is just the embryos food source

People that take Freud seriously

mind telling it in my face?

Forestry
>what tree is that?
>"dunno it's non-native"
>what wood is this?
>"dunno it's non-native"
>how old is this tree?
>"dunno would have to core it"
>guess you don't know much then!

every
time
Daily reminder that blackberries are actually an infructescence of drupelets, not a berry.

- How evolution works
- The term "virus" in a computing
- Everything you see in the internet is true

>The term "virus" in a computing sense

Quantum every word

That psychology= Therapy/therapists. Fucking hell studying behaviour and brain function can be completely removed from your retarded self help shit.

>common misconception
...that a billion people who speak Standard English
know what you mean by "grind your gears", Cletus.

Right no I'm traveling in a country where even the most educated people (scientists, doctors) don't believe in evolution. The reasoning they give is "have you ever seen a monkey turn into a human?" or "If humans came from monkeys, where are there still monkeys?" And yes, they literally ask me those questions unironically. No matter how hard I try explaining or proving evolution to them they just don't understand. I got so pissed off by these idiots that now I've just given up. When they start talking about Adam and Eve I just smile and nod.

yeah, computer viruses are closer to bacteria. botnets could be fungi. i think a virus could be something like an exploit that patches its host

Welcome to the Interwebs, Cletus

same here but with ANYTHING slightly related to math or numbers

what country is this?

Many European countries do that.

> Natural selection as an actual entity who give evolution some kind of direction

This is one of the worse ones.

What do they want from you?

Can u gib me examples? I want to see how others suffer. :D

How do you think planes fly

>Pharmacy major, already graduated
>Family thinks you know everything about medicine
>I actually do """know everything""" for they only ask baby tier questions

Feels good to actually have a useful degree

Not so much a misconception as misappropriations about scientific phenomenon

>using second law of thermodynamics as some bullshit form of pseudo-motivational speaking.
>using “survival of the fittest” to justify being a dickhead
Etc.

What Country?

>dark matter isn't real, physicists just make up 'dark' things to fill gaps in their explanations
Galaxies don't move the right way for the amount of visible mass they have, but a big cloud of invisible (electromagnetically non-interacting) matter surrounding them would explain this discrepancy
>what if it's just planets and black holes, they don't glow
Would still emit infra-red/radio and block light from objects behind them, which dark matter doesn't
>what if theories of gravity are wrong
They could be and plenty of people are pursuing those avenues of modelling, but so far none make predictions that match observations more accurately than the 'clouds of invisible matter' model
>how is invisible matter even possible
Plenty of already discovered particles don't interact electromagnetically, the problem is none of them are heavy enough or stable enough to be dark matter
>"How do you solve 1+1=3" "Add an extra dark number" >>physics
Incorrect premise, the problem is actually "1+1+x=3, solve for x" - x could be 1, or it could be a much more complex relation involving other parameters that can only be determined with modified theories of gravity.
'1' is the simplest solution, and so is dark matter - but so far no particle that matches the requirements has been detected and until one is (if it is) the uncertainty will remain.

>>using “survival of the fittest” to justify being a dickhead
This, as well as people then using that misconception to attack evolutionary theory as 'Darwinism' and claiming it promotes immorality/antisocial behaviour

>Hey, user! What’s 9724*32248?
uh
>I thought you studied math?

>psychology
>science

newton's 3rd law brainlet.

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Children can't be sexy.

basically how a kite fly.

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Announcing reports is a bannable offence, m9.

>Dunning-Kruger supposely meaning that dumb people think they are smart and smart people think they are dumb
>Psychology not being considered a science
>Lack of explanations on the true meaning of particles behaving like waves
>Average supposely meaning where most data is

> the earth is a globe
Really grinds my gears if you know what I mean

now i know why Australians don't fall. thanks user.

>Publicly calling for pedophilia
>Not "Illegal content"
Nice fake reporting.

nice reasoning

It literally reads Bernoulli in your first link. Stop being a ritard before acting smug.

Kek

can you even read einstein?

GMO is the worst

>oh, you have a master in biology, give me the name of all the gene in the chromosome 38 of the dog. you don't know ? Maybe it's a master of fake biology...

This is why you never ever answer a question asked by a non scientific.

Biology is top tier. Everything is harder with biology : biomath, biophysics, biochemistry.

the first link is wrong you cunt

>the sum of all positive integers is -1/12

retard

>bell's theorem disproves pilot wave theory