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It's fucking weird. If you're not wearing a military uniform, with rank, you're a civilian. This includes all scientists, except some folks at the NOAA and Publ
by Victerius 4y ago
It's fucking weird. If you're not wearing a military uniform, with rank, you're a civilian. This includes all scientists, except some folks at the NOAA and Public Health Service Commissioned Corps maybe.
- oldgradstudent 4y agoIt's a common metaphor. Civilian is someone who's never been in the armed forced and therefore ignorant of how things really work in the military and in battle. So it's basically a metaphor for a someone who's never studied statistics in depth and therefore ignorant of how statistic really work.