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Brainlets: Placebo just works
Pseudo-intellectuals: Try to resist placebo to try to prove how enlightened they are
High IQ phenotype: Willingly perform the art of doublethink themselves into being cured via the placebo effect without even needing to eat a pill, just through raw force of will

Don't think IQ would help much.
Maybe having extensive knowledge of drugs and medicine would help so you could tell the difference between a sugar pill and actual medicine.

>>9170619
>Willingly perform the art of doublethink themselves into being cured via the placebo effect without even needing to eat a pill, just through raw force of will

hilarious and true

Thats all the same shieet
theology and african studies are the most intelectual stimulating subjects

Fuck learning anything. Outright assumption is where it's at.

>>9170600

In terms of earnings and career prospects medicine trumps almost every other scientific field. However if you are not biochemically, physiologically inclined the next best option is petroleum engineering.

>>9170577
so how many sexual partners do you need on average until you find one that can fully fit lets say a 7,5" penis?

I'd volunteer as male test subject if you are planning a study

>>9170577
>The average vagina is about 2 to 3 inches deep when unaroused. When aroused, it's about 4 to 5 inches deep.
Source or gtfo

>>9170542
Nazi

>>9170542
I typically browse /lit/, but I'm majoring in a STEM field nonetheless, and spoiler alert: he's right.

>>9170408
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Homeopathy
>Homeopathic preparations are not effective for treating any condition;[2][3][4][5] large-scale studies have found homeopathy to be no more effective than a placebo, indicating that any positive effects that follow treatment are only due to the placebo effect, normal recovery from illness, or regression toward the mean.[6][7][8]

I was actually told by my psychologist to visit a homeopath. So one pseudoscientist recommended another pseudoscientist?

>dude how about we dilute the active substance to the point where you can't even detect it?

>lmao dude it'll work hahah

>this post belongs to /pseudosci/

the pics are beautiful, the quote is interesting, but the rest is horseshit, including you, OP

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>>9170407
>the rest is horseshit

Why have Tasmanian aborigines lived in Tasmania - a region with a climate similar to Europe - for longer than whites have lived in Europe you stupid cunt?

Hint: picture of a Tasmanian abo you dumb fuck.

well they're better than coffee

this is blatant advertising

>entire continent
It'd fuck up the west US but that's about it

>>9170326
well what about the black ash cloud enveloping all up to NY?

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>>9170316
Recently saw this in a pol thread, please no bully.

also wondering this

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https://sites.google.com/site/scienceandmathguide/subjects/mathematics

If you have done college algebra you know enough to start reading this book. It never gets more difficult than addition, subtraction, multiplication, and polynomials. He explains everything step by step. If you aren't used to proving things, or thinking rigorously about math problems it will be conceptually difficult, but you wont be lacking the technical skills.

Never. Only brainlets need to practice.

>>9170214
As much as necessary. It varies from person to person. Do exercises until you want to stab your eyes out from the repetition. And then do four more, since at that point you should be capable of doing any exercise with closed eyes.

>>9170214
I usually just do problems until I feel confident I can use the concept in abstract ways. Full disclosure though, I learned most of my math from reading textbooks on my own, so I can choose what problems to do or not to do, and always have to work with a limited amount (unless I want to find some online).

Normally, I like to experiment with some mathematical concept on my own, and get a sense of how it works. Just come up with random areas where you can use it, and observe what happens when you change different aspects of it, etc.

>>9170106
I know up to vector algebra.

Why is integration, differentiation, optimization, and series not part of calculus?
Why is radian, unit circle, and trig functions not part of trigonometry?
Why do you call u-sub 'inverse chain rule'?
Who made this picture?

bro why is counting at the top combinatorics is hard af

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I'm glad this picture isn't serious because if it is there would be no future for anyone anywhere, because a retard like me knows cohomology and is therefore beyond the genius gap.

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5 pages in 4 hours, how is /sci/ so slow?

Try chewing gum. There's also nail polish with a foul taste that you can buy to help you stop.

what do you mean nowadays? the term social engineering has been around since the 80's and it was always an integral part of most of the oldschool hackers way of going about things, like kevin mitnick et al.

and at no point in the paragraph you linked to i see the term hacking

>>9169422

>EQ

dropped your post and your opinions here

>>9169422
Social engineering is very useful tool in trying to penetration test a company. So rather than having to spend ages trying to explore the organisations infrastructure (both technical and non-technical), you can simply convince someone, ask or find a password.
This also involves dressing the part in the organisation, using the correct verbal communication and ustilising other social things. Such as having your arms full as you walk up to a security checkpoint so they let you past (Obviously this doesn't always happen), as an example. Understanding peoples behavior in companies and also thinking about the ways in which you can manipulate people working there all add up to the "Engineering" part of it.
Social Engineering is usually a shortcut to achieve something else or to make the job as a penetration tester easier.

I suggest looking up some DEFCON talks about it rather than taking my word for it.

>>9169414

after doing a study in electrical engineering you're more specialized in one direction, with mechatronics you're kind of at the point of intersection between mechanics and electronics.

just look at mister bean, he is an electrical eng. as well ;)

>>9169414
I'm in your situation too.Wanted to study software engineering then i applied for EE but didn't enter so i am now a mechatronic engineer

Better design would be orbiter/lander on parachutes. Still one trick pony but you'll get considerably more data on the atmosphere than you would with several second lasting blaze.

>>9169376
1. Expensive and no political will
2. Free space loss with RF is too great (laser comms tech is on the way though) and the amplifiers necessary to transmit at the tens of megabits necessary from distances like Jupiter would take over a kW of power
3. Speed of light means "livestreaming" is basically impossible

>>9169403
Of course there's no way to do it live. The key would be to pull as much constant data as possible, record it, then forward it to Earth as doable. I imagine it would be a few weeks or more to send good shit back that far.