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1. Lawrence Pritchard Waterhouse (lpwaterhouse@mastodon.technology)'s status on Saturday, 02-Apr-2022 06:57:45 UTC Lawrence Pritchard Waterhouse

   • Dr. Canageek

   @Canageek Given the tech-savviness of your average fediverse inhabitant I'm going to call into question the exact definition of "non-scientist"...

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   • Santa Claes 🇸🇪🇭🇰🎅 (clacke@libranet.de)'s status on Saturday, 02-Apr-2022 17:54:38 UTC Santa Claes 🇸🇪🇭🇰🎅

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     • Dr. Canageek
     @lpwaterhouse @Canageek Someone asked me many years ago "do you consider yourself a scientist?" and I'm not sure to this day exactly what they felt it meant.
     
     I'm certainly a science fan. From my experience I can say I have a better scientific understanding, both body of knowledge and method, than the median person. But I never studied for a PhD in the natural nor social sciences and that's probably where I'd start saying someone is a scientist.
     
     Is "scientist" in the thread start really intended to mean "science savvy"?
   • Lawrence Pritchard Waterhouse (lpwaterhouse@mastodon.technology)'s status on Saturday, 02-Apr-2022 17:54:39 UTC Lawrence Pritchard Waterhouse

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     • Dr. Canageek

     @Canageek Sorry, I realize was being a bit cryptic before :-P

   • Lawrence Pritchard Waterhouse (lpwaterhouse@mastodon.technology)'s status on Saturday, 02-Apr-2022 17:54:40 UTC Lawrence Pritchard Waterhouse

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     • Dr. Canageek

     @Canageek No shit. I would still argue that a tech-savvy crowd is *likely* *severely* biased towards knowing "science-y stuff" ;-)

   • Dr. Canageek (canageek@cybre.space)'s status on Saturday, 02-Apr-2022 17:54:40 UTC Dr. Canageek

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     @lpwaterhouse ahhhhh

   • Dr. Canageek (canageek@cybre.space)'s status on Saturday, 02-Apr-2022 17:54:41 UTC Dr. Canageek

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     @lpwaterhouse Tech doesn't count as science for the most part; you don't need to know anything about the physical world to be an excellent programmer, for example. That is all logic and math and algorithms.

   • Juha Autero (jautero@climatejustice.social)'s status on Saturday, 02-Apr-2022 18:40:44 UTC Juha Autero

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     • Santa Claes 🇸🇪🇭🇰🎅

     @Canageek @clacke @lpwaterhouse So, anyone who has studied in university?

   • Dr. Canageek (canageek@cybre.space)'s status on Saturday, 02-Apr-2022 18:40:44 UTC Dr. Canageek

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     @jautero @clacke @lpwaterhouse Or in an apprenticeship, or moved into it professionally (rare, but it happens. Programmers wind up working on scientific software more and more and then wind up involved in the science, for example.)

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   • Dr. Canageek (canageek@cybre.space)'s status on Saturday, 02-Apr-2022 18:40:45 UTC Dr. Canageek

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     • Santa Claes 🇸🇪🇭🇰🎅

     @clacke @lpwaterhouse I would say anyone who has formally studied it at any level after high school, or worked in scientific research?