The Reborn Scholar Wants To Counterattack
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He took a deep breath and asked, "What are your considerations for getting these experts to learn mathematics well?" The smile on Gu Weimian's lips deepened. The reporter laughed awkwardly at this, not knowing if he had said something wrong. Are the mathematical concepts I mentioned above, such as statistics and probability, qualities that scholars other than mathematics do not possess?" She smiled and said, "This is all high school math, right?
He took a deep breath and asked, "What are your considerations for getting these experts to learn mathematics well?"
The smile on Gu Weimian's lips deepened.
The reporter laughed awkwardly at this, not knowing if he had said something wrong. "Actually..."
“Let the data speak for itself.”
"ah?"
Gu Weimian shrugged. "First of all, are there any professional evaluation criteria for these experts to be called experts? Is it based on whether they have won prestigious awards, or how many professional papers they have published in authoritative journals? Or, as long as I can write articles and curse people, I can become an expert?"
“This is the premise of the entire proposition and also the most basic data.
"Secondly, what is the essence of science? It's falsifiability. I've already mentioned that we need scientific criticism. Conversely, what's more common, and more widely disseminated by today's media, is the verbal abuse of traditional intellectuals. So, should these expert articles be considered scientific criticism or intellectual verbal abuse, meaningless emotional venting? The latter isn't falsifiable, so two intellectuals can argue for thousands of years and still not reach a single valid conclusion. One day you say my classmate's child has good grades but can't even wash dishes and has absolutely no hands-on skills. Then tomorrow I say my friend's child has excellent grades and is a talented inventor. Is this science? It's making a connection out of nothing."
"So, for so-called hands-on ability, we also need a more definite standard that is more comprehensive, scientific, and statistically reliable. Producing results and then publishing them is a relatively scientific approach. Future generations can verify these data and build their own more comprehensive evaluation system based on them. The data left behind by previous generations is also very valuable for reference."
"Finally, some people may not understand what I'm saying and may simply find my requirements absurd. After all, in their eyes, it seems that scholars studying literature, history, and society, etc., have never studied mathematics. So, we need to provide a relatively fixed standard. What does it mean to learn mathematics well? Since learning mathematics well is conducive to more scientific research, what level of mathematics can support research in their respective fields? Are the mathematical concepts I mentioned above, such as statistics and probability, qualities that scholars other than mathematics do not possess?"
She smiled and said, "This is all high school math, right? Could it be that almost all of these experts never even attended high school?"
The reporter was actually a little confused by what he heard, and only then did he realize, "These experts have at least attended college, right? The math they learned there is basically enough to handle these problems, not to mention the more advanced graduate and doctoral students..."
He spoke more and more fluently. "If you want to get into university, you must have a relatively good math score. If you want to apply for graduate school, you need a good math score even more. The country took this into consideration when setting up the exam."
Gu Weimian nodded.
The reporter added, "If experts dare to call themselves experts, then, with the exception of a few, their education level must be higher than that of most ordinary people."