Why are sciences and mathematics scaled so well?

[Aquawhite]

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Originally Posted by youngminii

Why do you say that? Chem and Physics still have awesome scaling. Excluding extension subjects, Chem is the second highest scaling subject (I've always viewed Music 2 as a sort of extension subject as well..)
It's also the second highest scaling 2u subject, after both maths and Music 2.
Physics is 5th in both as well.

So you can't say sciences don't have high scaling, 'cause they do.

Ahh, well done! ^_^ Although Music 2 isn't really an extension... I don't want to brag and be arrogant but I will be for just a sentence; I'm quite talented in music and my school only offer Music 1 (obviously I wanted 2) so now I'm dropping Music ...

Chem and Physics pwn at scaling for just 2u subjects.

Checks again at MX1 and MX2 sooooo far in front. *wow*

[annabackwards]

Originally Posted by Aquawhite

Ahh, well done! ^_^ Although Music 2 isn't really an extension... I don't want to brag and be arrogant but I will be for just a sentence; I'm quite talented in music and my school only offer Music 1 (obviously I wanted 2) so now I'm dropping Music ...

Chem and Physics pwn at scaling for just 2u subjects.

Checks again at MX1 and MX2 sooooo far in front. *wow*

Exactly. Even if music 2 has excellent scaling, only less than a thousand people in the state have the ability/want to do it/their school offers it to them anyway.

[Uncle]

Originally Posted by ptrgrgry

Could you open your mind just a little? There is no use in distinguishing science and humanities, to glorify in spite of the other is quite ridiculous. Both are necessary for society to function. How can we live in a society without an effective legal and parliamentary system? You mentioned a higher standard of living yet failed to mention the economists who help our government obtain sustained long-term prosperity in order to acquire just that.

'Without scientists and doctors we'd have no medicine, no infastructure, blah blah blah' you whimsily say... and yes, I couldn't agree more. But you could similarly apply this statement to the work of humanitarians to the consummerist world we have come to live in. The work of scientists is excellent but that doesn't mean the work of the economist, politican, historian, etc is any less.

We can't all be scientists. We can't all be humanitarians.
Society needs both!

I do agree society in the meantime needs both but politicians are leeches.
While the working class gets stuck in traffic or overcrowded public transport, covered in dust and work for a pitiful salary while the politicians waste tax payer on their little trips to Hawaii for "the benefit of the country".
The humanitarians tend to exaggerate their status which is why it is concerning.
I'm also talking about the worse case scenario when society and civilisation falls and then the people you mentioned become entirely useless.

Originally Posted by tommykins

humanitarians know nothing about hard work.

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[ptrgrgry]

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[tommykins]

^^ you made no point whatsoever.

[Aquawhite]

Originally Posted by tommykins

^^ you made no point whatsoever.

lmao.

[Cloesd]

Its because the system fails at teaching math and science, and rewards students who have prevailed despite its bad teaching.

If math and science was taught better, more people would get higher marks, more people would be interested.

Now we see kids coming into kindergarten wanting to be scientists, but by the end of that first year, completely disregard mathematics as the devil's subject. Its clearly not the students fault.

[Gussy Booo]

Sciences + Maths = Easy marks
Why? Lets pretend you are the smartest guy in the world.
You do the exams.....
You'll get full marks because the questions ask for specific things, and the marker knows what he wants to see.

However, humanitarian subjects are subjective. If the marker does not like the way you've expressed something, you get marked down.

[Aquawhite]

Originally Posted by Gussy Booo

Sciences + Maths = Easy marks
Why? Lets pretend you are the smartest guy in the world.
You do the exams.....
You'll get full marks because the questions ask for specific things, and the marker knows what he wants to see.

However, humanitarian subjects are subjective. If the marker does not like the way you've expressed something, you get marked down.

+1 and extremely true. (although I do SOR which is a humanities subject I guess and I seem to manage with it ... well I'm first ^_^. I don't think they're subjective as people make out).

[Shadowdude]

To the OP:

I'm sorry, but I would think trying to find the volume generated by revolving the area bounded by the lines + and - a of the hyperbola: y^2/b^2 - x^2/a^2 = 1 about the y-axis using the method of cylindrical shells - is much harder than jumping around and moving your arms in a wave like fashion.