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So I work between math/physics and bio, it really isn as much of a handicap as you think. Yes, I love it if every
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A typical biology paper will be about something along the lines of "We show that gene X is necessary for proper development of drosophila embryos, if it is knocked out then mutation Y occurs". The paper then proceeds to do experiments with well thought out controls and show that this gene that might not have had a known function is in fact important.
One thing a lot of people in physics/math have trouble understanding is that biology data really isn at the resolution of the other natural sciences. The systems are MUCH harder to control and there are so many factors that contribute to
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The data is getting better and better, which is why more quantitative
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tiffany outlet online however if you go back more than a decade or two the experimental setup wasn sophisticated enough to verify a precise model even if you had one. Imagine if Gauss had invented general relativity. Even if he was right, they still would have been decades away from being able to measure
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air max pas cher homme eclipse with enough accuracy to know if the theory was right. Wilson has a really really dated and condescending viewpoint, however in
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Same with biology, despite what a lot of people believe there are some biologists I met who are really incredibly knowledgeable with statistics and
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Sorry for all the
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