Sciences VS Arts

For that matter try mentioning chlorophyll or endocrine to people studying physics at university, then to people studying English. The proportion who know what both words mean will be about the same in each group.

I've found some evidence against the idea that people can switch from sciences to arts but not the other way (all examples kindly provided by Goodfella333):
"prestigous"
"Thats"
"proffesional"
"definately" (Features in two separate posts.)
"Religous" (I would think it was a typing error, but it was done twice in two sentences.)
"einstein"
"rigourous"
"i've"
"there" (In place of they're.)

Of course I only skimmed through. There could be numerous other mistakes. And that's without mentioning the sentences starting with lower case letters or without full stops. I ignored any things which appeared to be typing errors e.g. "bas" in place of "bad".

If an arts student tries to talk about science they will make equally bad mistakes of course, but the idea that

"A science student can swtich to arts later if he wants to.
An art student can't."

is ridiculous.

I was confused by you posting in the A levels forum then.

Mention iambic pentameter to a science student. For that matter try mentioning chlorophyll or endocrine to people studying physics at university, then to people studying English. The proportion who know what both words mean will be about the same in each group.

Thanks for that, you have just proven my point. Even though my english may not be up to scratch, I still managed to get an A at GCSE English language. (it just shows what a joke the subject is)

I wouldn't say i am extremely smart(probably just smart), so noone can say i started this thread to show everyone how smart i am. However deep down in every arts student, you all know the scientists are the smarter of the two. If anyone seriously feel artists are smarter than scientists(just to name a few: Newton, Fariday, Lord Kelvin, Pythagoras, Galileo, Einstein) seriously needs there heads tested.

Without arts (langauges), can we communicate with those foreign people from across the globe? Without History, sociology, philosophy, can we not learn from the world's past mistakes and better the world? Scientists have to have philosophised about the world in order to come up with theories themselves in order to satisfy their search for the answers to their questions.
Without sciences the world wouldn't progress very much, but without arts I doubt the world would progress much either.

I got an A in Maths even though I'm not a science person. It doesn't mean Maths is a joke. GCSEs are basic anyway, and many people can get As in GCSEs and not do much work. An A in English language GCSE doesn't mean that "a science person can switch to arts, and not vice versa".

Very good point.

You people do realize that philosophy is the God of all subjects, and that science used to be philosophy?

I got an A in gcse english with poor grammar. However i can guarantee anyone they will not even pass let alone get an A in gcse maths with a poor mathematical skills such as addition and subtraction. This shows us that you can get an A in english(arts) with poor fundamental skills, however this would never occur in the hard sciences.

It wasn't called philosophy it was called natural philosophy, which is a completely different subject. It was bascally just a combination of mathematics, metaphysics and logic.

The A* mark was around 65% for maths. So.. you could get an A with pretty crap skills.

How crap? as crap as not being able to add numbers?

Actually, I know a fair amount of people who have got an A in GCSE Maths, inculding myself who sometimes need a calculator for the simplest of subtractions! I always make silly mistakes and forget to carry numbers etc. and went through the whole of GCSE Maths not fully understanding why some stuff was the way it was. I just learned the method and applied it to the question. This is what a lot of GCSE subjects are about anyway. As Ace said, GCSEs don't really test you properly on your aptitude for the subject as it's just a syllabus which you can learn back to front and get an A* in. It doesn't test your true ability or skill for the subject, just how well you can pass the tests...

I got an A in gcse english with poor grammar. However i can guarantee anyone they will not even pass let alone get an A in gcse maths with a poor mathematical skills such as addition and subtraction. This shows us that you can get an A in english(arts) with poor fundamental skills, however this would never occur in the hard sciences.

Thanks for that, you have just proven my point. Even though my english may not be up to scratch, I still managed to get an A at GCSE English language. (it just shows what a joke the subject is)

I wouldn't say i am extremely smart(probably just smart), so noone can say i started this thread to show everyone how smart i am. However deep down in every arts student, you all know the scientists are the smarter of the two. If anyone seriously feel artists are smarter than scientists(just to name a few: Newton, Fariday, Lord Kelvin, Pythagoras, Galileo, Einstein) seriously needs there heads tested.