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I’m totally ranting but the fact that this man thinks his EYES are more accurate than a computer program is absolutely mind boggling. I sent him the directions for how to use the measuring program. Will he use it? Absolutely not. He will go on confidently assuming his eyes are better at measuring than a fricking computer.
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Virgin measure twice cut once v Chad ehhhh that looks good
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unironically feels>facts lol, but somehow its bad now
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i think it has to do with experience and age, usually people who have been working on a field for a long time base their judgment on their "guts" and they are usually right.
Its like that line of dialogue in Succesion, when Logan Roy (the family's patriarch) its about to sell his empire for billions of dollars and his college educated but inexperienced kids are trying to make him slow down and analize the sell and he says: "No, it has to be now"
Daughter: Why now?
Logan: Because i feel it in my bones.
Daugther: Oh, wow, no arguing with that!
Logan: At the end of the day, its all i fricking got.
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Yeah but for measurements you don't need to use your gut feeling lol. They have instruments. Who uses gut feeling on measurements on any professional level!?
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Way, way, WAY more than you think. Ever checked your drywall for square and plumb?
How about your foundation?
A bridge, perhaps?
The water main that is literally the only thing keeping you from Oregon trailing yourself?
“We ain’t building fricking rolexes.”
^ Every construction superintendent or foreman that has ever lived
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No, it depends on the county, how strict the building codes are and how bribable the inspectors are. That throws that shit off real fast and you know where people are from pretty easily.
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Yeah there will be leeway in every measurement, a carpenter might not care about millimetres of difference, a bridge constructor might accept a centimetres difference etc. But you don't cut a 100cm 2x4 if you need 60cm one or a 140cm one
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You’re right. That’s where you use your gut feeling, you neurodivergent cute twink. That’s why these guys make so much money.
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my gut feeling says you're an r-slur and I am going to accept it
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Like all gut feelings from men, this one is accurate.
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This is a lab. Chemistry is not something you can eye like that. Period.
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lmao having worked with many bench scientists I can assure you that they are hungover, lazy, and only care about science as far as they are getting paid to work on someone else's grant. If someone can fudge the numbers to get 4th author in some random journal, they're also going to generalize data. Happens every single day.
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Yeah, that's fine. That's the prerogative of any STEM professional. However, they still need to learn how to do shit properly before they're allowed to disregard it. That's the privelage of being a STEMcel: you put the work in to learn all this shit at the beginning so that you get to blow it off when you feel like it once you get the experience.
In short, force college kids to jump through these hoops so their laziness is informed when they enter the work force. Also, the rest of us had to do it so frick those kids if they think they can get it easier.
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Don't worry, they'll forget to use the fume hood and get cancer from smelling solvents all day.
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Eh, I’ll eye it if it’s a quick and dirty experiment. I’ll do it again all measured out if I get a promising result.
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That's fine. I'm just saying that reliable final results cannot be done by eyeing measurements.
The reason college kids are put into these labs is to beat scientific procedure into them. Maybe this kid eyeing the stuff is already experienced at conducting lab work, or maybe he's just lazy and/or careless.
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He’s probably just r-slurred because the purpose of the assignment was to use ImageJ or something to analyze some EM images.
Also, undergrad labs are hardly good at teaching anyone anything. It’s usually so spoon fed that you just need to go through the motions without real thought.
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My girlfriends car has a back camera but I can still parallel park better.
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sure, lol, i was talking about the "feeling" part in general, but yeah, in this particular case, where they are measuring in the nanometre scale, you clearly need the software and the foid was right.
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Some r-slurs that own the local party bar drunkenly counted the length of their 2nd floor by number of footsteps. Lost 50k buying steel beams that were half a foot short.
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