RE: Is saying "...so I know how science works." likely to convince people?
February 13, 2020 at 2:34 pm
Anyway, a little joke from my real life about soft sciences and hard sciences:
In the summer before my second year on the university, my father asked me which subjects I will have that semester. Then I named, among other things, object-oriented programming. And my father asked me: "How? Object-oriented programming? Really weird name! And, is there also some subject-oriented programming?".
Then, after a few weeks, we met with some friend of him. So, my father asked me: "How is that subject you have this semester called, again?". So I repeated "object-oriented programming". And then my father asked his friend "So, can you guess what that name refers to? What's it supposed to describe? Can you think of a name that's more stupid?". Then the friend said "Well, I guess it's called object-oriented programming because it's mostly the engineers and mathematicians who do the programming. If it was done mostly by historians and economists, then it would be called subject-oriented programming.".
In the summer before my second year on the university, my father asked me which subjects I will have that semester. Then I named, among other things, object-oriented programming. And my father asked me: "How? Object-oriented programming? Really weird name! And, is there also some subject-oriented programming?".
Then, after a few weeks, we met with some friend of him. So, my father asked me: "How is that subject you have this semester called, again?". So I repeated "object-oriented programming". And then my father asked his friend "So, can you guess what that name refers to? What's it supposed to describe? Can you think of a name that's more stupid?". Then the friend said "Well, I guess it's called object-oriented programming because it's mostly the engineers and mathematicians who do the programming. If it was done mostly by historians and economists, then it would be called subject-oriented programming.".
