<p>“I was going to respond but then I decided that I really didn’t care.”</p>
<p><em>still responds</em></p>
<p>I suspect that it varies significantly!</p>
<p>I could see engineers being a little less social, but cold and not empathy? My ex was a doctor and so were all her friends, I never met a group of people who had less sympathy for those suffering. I guess it goes with the job when you see it everyday, but they used to tell jokes related to treatment of people in severe trauma or had terrible accidents.</p>
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Definitely a breach of medical code. I used to work at a hospital, and I remember that they said in no uncertain terms that medical staff are not allowed to talk about patients. These rules definitely apply to doctors as well.</p>
<p>So the sample was 200 “students”… why do they publish idiotic studies like this?</p>
<p>“Masturbation has been shown to improve quality of life”</p>
<p>“Most people prefer diets high in fats and sugar”</p>
<p>“Fat people are more likely to have a negative body image”</p>
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<p>That is not true, but it’s sad that you’d actively skew scientific research like that instead of simply not participating.</p>
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<p>The sample was 480 students.</p>
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<p>The well-established questionairre has been rigorously tested for validity and reliability. It’s indeed too bad that the published paper is not instead a multi-volume magnum opus on the emotions of engineers, but that does not take away from the meaningfulness of the findings.</p>
<p>This is not basic research, The point of it, as actually identified in the article, is to inform educators of possible deficiencies in engineering education. The engineer in you might be able to also detect the practical value of such information.</p>
<p>I am a mechanical engineering, more logical/practical than a lot of moms. But I’m still a caring person. Heck, I can even get teary over a Hallmark commercial.</p>
<p>By using the phrase “magnum opus”, Philovitist has officially won this discussion, and it is henceforth ordained that all posts to this thread be of a strictly whimsical character. That is all.</p>
<p>I still love my dog</p>
<p>Sorry. Bad mood when I posted those. >.></p>
<p>My Momma said: this study is bad since it has not been approved by our well-known psychologist Dr. Phil…y’all…momma loves Dr. Phil !!!</p>
<p>Are you mocking Psychology, Southerners and Dr. Phil at the same time?</p>
<p>Philovitist: are you still in bad mood?..momma said: it aint good to be bad mood all day long.</p>
<p>I don’t even want to open the link, but engineers are only students for 4 years and then they can go out into the world and do their thing. Doctors are students for at least 8 year plus residency. Why don’t we compare Engineering seniors with doctors in their last year of residency and see how much of the humanity has been beaten out of the doctors by the internship process that gives them even less of a life than a 21 year old engineering student. Then for kicks throw in the personality of a group 28 year old working engineers vs those 28 year old MD’s still in residency and see who has had their corners rounded off and who has all kinds of wonderful new hang-ups due to lack of sleep and witnessing too much trama. Long term, I would rather hand out with a bunch of engineers and I do.</p>
<p>One thing no one here bothered to mention is that this study is conducted in Sweden, where I think these results could be quite accurate.
Whether or not you think this type of test has legitimacy is another question altogether. There’s legitimate psychology and pop psychology, and sometimes the distinction is quite blurred.</p>
<p>This could be true but in the end I do have feelings and such. You can’t really trust those questionnaires/surveys.</p>
<p>ya’ll…The water boy (Bobby Boucher Jr) said: those Swedes are up to no good with this research thingy…they are on a Search and Destroy Mission!!..ya’ll… I love Bobby Boucher Jr.</p>
<p>Another reason why I’m glad to be an engineer.</p>
<p>Studying Human Factors Engineering has allowed me to remain in touch with my inner Liberal Arts Major :)</p>