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Trying to get biologists to care about computers is like telling someone to be excited that they need to get all their wisdom teeth pulled and have a cavity fil
by grawprog 6y ago
Trying to get biologists to care about computers is like telling someone to be excited that they need to get all their wisdom teeth pulled and have a cavity filled on the same day. I was pretty much the oddity throughout all my schooling and any of the biologists I met while working that actually knew much of anything about computers and programming beyond what needed to be done to write reports and enter data.
Most biologists I met were far more comfortable in the pissing rain, up the mountain, in the middle of nowhere collecting animal shit than in front of a keyboard.
If there were a Venn diagram of biologists and computer and technology enthusiasts the overlap would need a micrometer to be read.
Disclaimer: Please take this extremely generalized and likely offensive to one of those small few in that tiny overlap I mentioned, statement with a grain of salt. Please don't take this too seriously, it's just from my own narrow sampling of people i've interacted with which is may or may not be representative of the overall population.
- oefrha 6y agoYou really need to learn more about bioinformaticians’ contributions to computing before making an ignorant and knowingly offensive comment like this. Disclaimer: my background has absolutely no overlap with biology/bioinformatics.
- grawprog 6y agoI know about bioinformatics and the contributions of biology to computer science and vice versa. I've personally worked in both field sampling and data analysis. My overly offensive generalized statement was a light jab towards field biologists i've known, including my own friends who i've debated on this subject with, who tend to dislike computers and will go as far to avoid even excel and hand write their data while doing all math on a calculator. It really wasn't meant to be taken seriously and I suppose would go above the head of those who haven't spent a lot of time in the field with biologists.
- oefrha 6y agoOkay, sorry about the misinterpretation, but it should have been clear to you that ggp was referring to computational biologists or bioinformaticians, making your observations rather unrelated.