Hey michael, vsauce here

Damaging. Needs more math. Normies think science is shit you discuss between bong hits.

>>8461609

>>8461604
Helping. A lot of redditors think they 'just totally get it, man' and go study math or physics to then only pay the big bucks a couple of the first semestees (the ones that are cheapest for the uni to keep but cost just as much as the future semesters for the students) and give money to our programs and then they just leave, giving our departments huge profit margins that they can use to fund us.

At my uni the stop students get paid a monthly salary funded right from brainlet pockets.

I think the net effect is good. Young adults and children see things they find interesting, and are more likely to delve deeper into the subject than they would be if they were shown a research paper or textbook that they couldn't yet understand. Who cares what normies think or say? Sure it's annoying to have people act this way >>8461609 but as long as there is something getting more kids, teenagers, and young adults into math and science, it is a good thing.

I want a vsauce for math.
"What's up internet, today we're teaching you derivatives!"
"Now, when you ask most people what a derivative is, they'll either tell you it's super hard high level math, or start in about how this is derived from that. . ."
"What if I told you how to do derivatives in a way that raises your iq just for knowing it?"

Then he just teaches the general populace how to math a little bit and makes people think math makes you naturally smarter.
People would believe him and there would arise social pressures to learn math in fear of being considered stupid or dumb for not knowing math.

>>8461646
This. Some people will be all I FUCKIN LUV SCIENCE but some people will get a genuine interest and seek to study it. You only see the I FUCKIN LUV SCIENCE people on social media so they have more of a presence.

>>8461655
Numberphile?

it doesn't do anything. research is funded by government granting agencies with no input on funding decisions from the public. literally nothing would change if popsci went away

>>8461609
Eh, interest is interest. Besides, that's not entirely false, just phenomenally lazy and not likely to provide any useful, quantitative results. Anyone who is going to make a real career out of a scientific discipline gas better sources anyway. The average guy or even enthusiast doesn't really need to do any number crunching, though it'd be cool if they'd include some guides, where relevant, if you wanted to try.

>>8461655
vvsauce is a vsauce for math, counting past infinity episode was most of the intuition I needed for my discrete math course. also the banach tarrararaski paradox, Zipf mystery etc

maybe also vihart or mathologer?


>>8461665
or this

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>>8461665

Can vouch for Numberphile as well. That sweaty bottom twink Grime, The Gook that speaks like Rocco Siffredi, and that Klein Bottle Dude are brilliant at getting their points accross.

If someone gets interested via pop sci, then it helps. Science is not a secret society and should not be treated jealously.

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Hurting I came into my university wanting to be a physicist, but found that what physics is actually like is different then how pop sci makes it seem.

>>8461821
I ended up going into Biology though so I still ended up in science.

>>8461822
lool what did u think it is?

i really dont like the extrapolations popsci journalists seem to make about many studies in neuroscience.

>>8461604
I doubt you are that person or why you'd bother impersonating that guy. And on the remote possibility that you are (post proof), it sounds to me like 4chan is not the best place to get a genuine answer.

>>8461831

are you retarded?

>>8461831
are you retarded?

>>8461734
i like the russian guy, and the standup maths guy, the japanese guy, brady, the lady in california, and the funny guy in the donut episode

>>8461831
are you retarded?

>>8461831
are you retarded?

>>8461831

are you retarded?

>>8461831
are you retarded?

>>8461831
Ist dein Gehirn kaput?

>>8462191
are you retarded?

>>8461655
Vihart = Vsauce(math) + explaining nigs nogging as anything but their own stupid decisions

>>8461604
Damaging, it increases the Dunning-Kruger effect and there is literally nothing worse than that

>>8461604
>In the end, is the net effect of popscience actually damaging or helping (real) science?

Too big a catagory to define in general catagorical terms.

Some popsci may help, some may hurt, some may be completely neutral.

>>8461831
are you retarded?

>>8462929
>it increases the dunning-kruger effect

t. conjecturing moron with a superiority complex

>>8461831
are you retarded?