Recent content by physicsdude30

What I don't understand it's perfectly okay for there to be plenty of Internet porno because of the freedom of speech, but then people want it to be illegal to burn religious books or the United States flag. Although I think either of the latter two would be quite disgusting, what ever happened...

The thing is, these Muslims who were offended don't understand that in the United States you can burn a U.S. flag because we have the freedom of speech. The government won't punish you for burning the nation's flag. It's not an issue of Islam, but rather freedom of speech. As far as freedom...

Jared, you use "indoctrinating women" as a reason to ban. To put things into perspective, it doesn't matter what religion you are, many out there are going to call you brainwashed because you're not their religion instead. Wouldn't that be playing favorites with religion? I mean I hear...

I'm not sure what France's constitution says, but in the United States they knowingly intentionally made a Bill of Rights to protect certain rights from "majority rule". The freedom of religion was one of them along with some others. It was meant so 95% of the population couldn't just say, "We...

Your question wasn't what has a broader impact overall, but rather what attracts people to become engineers versus pure research. My response above was meant to be more of where they're coming from, rather than an argument of what is more useful. As far as usefulness it has to do with context...

Analytical instead of creative? Something to consider, many think of creativity as art or making cool inventions. However, there's another type of creativity, scientific creativity where you come up with new discoveries. To illustrate how originality works, a woman makes a wedding cake out of...

Perhaps engineers see the "Big Picture" vs "Details" differently? To illustrate where I'm coming from, most would say Isaac Newton was a big picture thinker. He saw an apple fall from a tree and though "gravity". He saw past the "here and now details" of apple and other activities of his time...

As far as I can find, there are no statistically significant correlations between personality and time/date someone is born. Sources: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Astrology" (Although Wikipedia isn't scholarly, the second paragraph has links to sources about not finding any statistically...

As far as why I'm pondering whether falsification is the cause versus symptom, try looking at Physics versus Psychology, especially the scale that shows how much they actually differ by percentage of papers claiming support for a hypothesis versus failed to support (about 85% versus 91.5%)...

How important is "falsification in Science"?What separates Physics from everyone else Many here are quite fascinated by Science, or at least I'd think that's why you signed up for PhysicsForums. One topic many are interested in is: What separates Physics from the other Sciences? Something...

Interesting. To control for possibility of slight water vapor differences, I want to conduct this experiment again, but this time perhaps I could find a place to buy some canned pure CO2 gas? (I wonder if matchstick smoke or dry ice fog overflowing from another cup affects water vapor...

Something you may want to consider, I tried the experiment more than once. I switched the places of the jars, some of the times with the control jar on the left, then others on the right, vice versa for the experimental jar. I actually once rinsed out both jars, dried them, then tried the...

One of my past jobs was telephone surveys for a market research company. From personal experience I can say that the more "distance and anonymous they feel from you", the less likely they'll feel to impress you with their answers or social desirability bias. If you're in person face to face in...

I don't think I understand your logic here. Why not instead do the lesser of the two evils? You keep on saying social desirability bias is something to watch out for, and that you think case studies where you interview them face-to-face is a good alternative? However, every source says...

I wonder if there's a way to find the genes which are responsible for how cells combine for sexual reproduction, then look at a variety of organisms, then use the molecular clock to see if they have the same of those type of genes and how much they've mutated to get an estimate of time period...