Sunday, July 01, 2012

Too much math is tough for scientists: study

http://m.yahoo.com/w/legobpengine/news/too-much-math-tough-scientists-study-190952087.html?orig_host_hdr=news.yahoo.com&.intl=US&.lang=en-US

1 comment:

Harry Dale Huffman said...

The title shows ignorance, and childish portrayal, of what the study actually showed:

"They found that papers with more equations in the text were less likely to be cited in future papers, signaling that scientists may not be paying attention to research that is jammed with mathematical details."

Or scientists are just not particularly impressed by equations (versus, say, a display of good physical insight).