/sci/ - Science and Mathematics

>Mentors

>From Anonymous:

>Not long after college, I married a mentor who was 10 years older than me. He is kind of an abusive tyrant/jerk, but I learned trade specific stuff from him that you don’t find in books and it was, honestly, the only way for me to get that kind of information. It provided a foundation upon which I have independently built for the last 5 years. As I progressed through my career, I saw most women drop out for lack of good mentors while most young men were taken under someone’s wing and given the sort of training that I got.

Wut. I married my husband for career advice but I don't really like him and inequality in the field made me do it.

>>2187

Does anyone have the quote from the feminist how said that E=mc^2 was a sexed equation

and the other one that said physic was sexist because "masculine" rigid body mechanics are taught first as opposed to "feminine" fluid mechanics.

>>2208

>>2212

thank you ,but i guess was looking for an image

From Anonymous:

I was being interviewed by a producer for an NPR story and was competing with several males for the slot. I ended up being offered the slot by the producer who immediately told me that “it wouldn’t look good to have all Caucasian males interviewed so you got the interview even though everyone else seemed to be an expert.” Apparently I was not “expert enough” despite outranking the males who were interviewed and having published more on the topic.

>this bitch got the job because vagina and still cries sexism

>>2220

meritocracy is dead in the west.

Is there any country left where someone can make an honest living or career. Because despite hoe bad it is here in the US other countries are even more corrupt and authoritarian than we are even if they haven been marred by "social justice".

>>2222

Nothing of value to the conversation, but nice quads, Anon.

>>2208

I don't have a picture but this is the quote you are looking for I think:

"Is E=Mc² a sexed equation? Perhaps it is. Let us make the hypothesis that it is insofar as it privileges the speed of light over other speeds that are vitally necessary to us. What seems to me to indicate the possible sexed nature of the equation is not directly its uses by nuclear weapons, rather it is having privileged that which goes faster."

Irigaray, Luce. Parler n’est jamais neutre. Éditions de Minuit. 1987. p.110. (Quoted in and translated by Alan Sokal and Jean Bricmont, Intellectual Impostures, London: Profile Books, 1998, p.100.)

/sci/ how do we save philosophy and the social sciences given that they're totally corrupted with this sort of crap?

Here are the main branches of the social sciences:

- economics

- political science

- human geography

- demography

- sociology

- anthropology

- archaeology

- history

- law

- linguistics

How do we save these social sciences? What do you think are the worst social sciences? How can we establish scientific rigour in these sciences?

>>2395

Sociology is the scientific study of social behaviour, including its

origins, development, organization, and institutions.

What shapes the evolution of a society and what shapes peoples' social

customs? How can we empirically study and investigate society?

Personally, I think sociology has to start with a firm basis in

psychiatry, and in turn psychiatry has to start with a firm basis in

psychology.

So, I think I can generate some good questions from this:

- How does schizophrenia affect the mind and behaviour of individuals?

And how do such effected individuals affect their society?

- Same thing but for addiction, autism, depression, paranoia,

psychosis, psychopathy and sociopathy.

>>2396

So, for a start: a lot of these disorders cause behaviour detrimental to society as a whole and I hypothesize that a lot of societies implement prisons, correctional services and things in response to these kinds of misbehaviour.

So, some parts of society that may have been influenced by the need to respond to individual misbehaviour due to mental illness could be:

- Shame

- Chivalry

- Honor

- Morals

- Don't hurt women or children

- Religion

- Religious morals

- Spiritual advisors such as Rabbis, Priests, etc…

- A feeling of belonging to a group or family

- Government

- Prisons/Jails

- Correctional services

How can we test how societies differ in response to mental illness though? Are there any empirical examples of societies or social groups that have had more or less instances of mental illness in their population?

I know that atheists may have higher rates of depression and other problems and certain Jewish ethnicities have higher rates of some mental illnesses. Have many athiest or Jewish social groups developed any unique features in response to the pressures on their social groups because of higher rates of certain mental illnesses? What are features unique to atheist social groups and Jewish social groups?

>>2395

>save philosophy

you're better of just saving epistemology , they're the only ones that matter

>save social sciences

This is the future they chose

>I was recently invited to give a talk at a University. During one of the off-moments when my hosts and I were sitting around chatting, the main host mentioned that he doesn’t believe sexism exists at his institution. As proof, he pointed out that he had just hired a female post-doc. When I asked how many other female post-docs his dept has, he said – well, she’s the only one. The female in question was there, so I asked her to tell us her story. Her story had interesting examples of bias all along the way, which made us think that this particular woman was pretty tough to have stuck it out. It’s possible that Mr. Host might have started to understand that it’s not a level playing ground.

Maybe there weren't many female applicants.

>>2408

Is oblivious that despite STEM preferential hiring practices women are discriminated against because a guy wore a shirt.

They should take women's studies as a major to learn more about how they're aren't enough women in stem