Things are fun when you do them because you want to. So either you can combine learning with activities kids usually want to do or you make them want to learn. The traditional approach is to try to make them want to learn, which as we know only work on a fraction of the kids.
I'd say that the...
It is natural for people to feel like they have chosen the superior path, it is to avoid cognitive dissonance. It is also natural to want to feel better than others at something to merit your own existence, in college either your classes are easier or you are an autistic nerd.
The mathematics in physics is just used to structure up your statements and then from that logically derive their implications. For example if I have physical statements A and B then I can find a statement C implied by those. You can do that without translating into the more succinct...
Why would that be odd? And knowing more subjects doesn't mean that you are mathematically superior, just that you are broader which doesn't help that much once you start getting into research.
Making great games is an artform, just like making great movies or music. You need someone who knows how to convey feelings to people, the feeling of a game is the most important aspect. Try for example to play a game without sound, it will suck, it is the same game but you just lost a lot of...
So let's say that people like to do an activity, call it A. There are two factors to why they do this, B and C. People rate B as being of importance 8 to why they do this and C as 4. Now let say that for some reason B is no longer a factor. Would you expect people to keep C as a 4?
The OP has...
The difference is that cooking was her job, in the same way as providing money was the mans job. There is nothing personal about women wanting men with lots of money and men wanting women who can take care of a home. I'd define personal attractiveness as how you feel when you are with the...
Since heterosexuals vastly outnumbers the others any survey would be mostly influenced by their picks. Also I didn't say that people are just out for looks today, how well you work as a team is also a part of personal attraction.
And no, I did the rational thing of looking at what is...
Yeah, I get that vibe. You can imagine the person demonstrating gym equipment or something like that if you have a hard time removing the distraction of them having strange interests. But it is still just a few videos, it isn't like it is easy to see who has it even when you meet them face to...
That one is much harder, I can't tell much by just hearing a couple of snippets of him talking and watching his hands. I forgot to mention eye movements and such, do he have a video where he talks into the camera?
ed:From these video I'd suspect it though...
In the 1930's the wife relied on the mans income while the man relied on the womans ability to cook and clean. Today it is just personal attractiveness left, so of course good looks gets more important since it is a big part in how attractive someone is perceived to be.
He doesn't seem autistic at all, why would anyone draw that conclusion? Having autism/asperger is not about having strange interests. Since asperger/autism have such low prevalence if you see someone having strange interests like this it still is very unlikely that he got asperger.
If we look...
In general the closer you get to applications the less competition there is since there are more willing to pay you for it. I'd guess that the REU's you are talking about are mostly associated with applied physics or (if theoretical) solid state physics.
I am tired, I really shouldn't have reacted like that.
Look through my arguments with jostpuur in this thread, it was 1 year ago:
https://www.physicsforums.com/showthread.php?t=360250&page=3
And these ones were 2 years ago:
https://www.physicsforums.com/showthread.php?t=318507...
Maybe you misunderstood, they assume just as much about me as I assume about them. You can't have a discussion without assumptions, as I said. Maybe the assumption I made in this topic was a bad one, but after a few posts I almost always agree with my opponent. As I said, I do not discuss to try...