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Questions related from Marcel M. Lambrechts
Students that get medical formations are tested for their skills in Mathematics. Why given that good medical doctors do not necessarily require advanced Mathematics to heal people?
09 September 2018 8,512 25 View
It's all in the question Thanks
02 February 2018 9,154 20 View
Example: According to Biology living beings start to economize in unpredictable environments, e.g. animals store fat or hide food when resources become unpredictable and restrictive. When...
04 April 2016 964 91 View
http://www.bbc.com/news/technology-35977315
04 April 2016 4,737 83 View
It's all in the question. Thanks!
03 March 2016 1,228 44 View
It's all in the question Thanks!
02 February 2016 9,459 60 View
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02 February 2016 7,731 46 View
Mots clés: Education, Santé, Environnement, Numérique…. Thanks!
02 February 2016 795 96 View
The first signs of art date from more than 30.000 years ago (e.g. cave art) whereas the first signs of writing (e.g. Tamil) appeared let say ca. 5000 years ago? Any idea why artistic humans waited...
02 February 2016 7,811 94 View
A picture can be used to illustrate scientific activities, but what is its scientific value? Thanks for your opinion!
01 January 2016 2,703 68 View
It's all in the question! Thanks for your expressions
01 January 2016 9,914 49 View
It's all in the question! Thanks!
12 December 2015 7,572 95 View
Some people claim that it may take at least 10 years to form a scientist/researcher? Research directors are often not available for students that learn science (e.g. overloaded with teaching or...
12 December 2015 5,039 16 View
12 December 2015 6,001 98 View
Scientists are often non-believers, e.g. ignoring or rejecting phenomena they are not able to observe/perceive themselves (e.g. spiritual aspects). But how often does it happen that these...
11 November 2015 1,844 77 View
What is important: the mind or the material?
11 November 2015 7,473 19 View
It's all in the question. Any examples? What is your opinion? Thanks!
11 November 2015 989 21 View
Why people do not wish to share data accepting that it may hamper efficient research practices, e.g. those that provide more reliable answers to problems/questions discussed in the scientific...
10 October 2015 9,150 45 View
Exactly the same research topic might be perceived as very interesting by some people, but not interesting at all by other people? Any idea why this should be the case?
09 September 2015 5,207 81 View
Is science-based consensus socially negotiated?
09 September 2015 4,379 27 View
Humans belong to nature, or not?
09 September 2015 1,913 10 View
There might be different reasons to determine who should be the first author in a multi-author publication. What about the author position of the person that analyzed the data in empirical studies?
06 June 2015 2,568 16 View
It's all in the question
05 May 2015 5,920 45 View
Familiarity with science topicsScience projects should be perceived as ‘feasible’ in at least one human-defined scale of analysis. Proposing a scientifically feasible project requires time and at...
05 May 2015 7,003 16 View
Do popular topics often exposed in the media might have a higher chance to get financial support for research, or not? Do interesting research topics selected by scientists reach the media or does...
04 April 2015 2,628 19 View
If you truly master a language (e.g. French, English, etc...), do you truly master a language-dependent culture (e.g. the culture expressed in France, UK, etc...)?
02 February 2015 6,046 30 View
David Colquhoun. 2014. An investigation of the false discovery rate and the misinterpretation of p-values. Roy. Soc. open sci. 1:140216 Summary of the summaryIf you use p = 0.05 to suggest that...
02 February 2015 5,463 8 View
People read a lot in an education framework. Understanding the content of a new scientific publication requires reading and understanding other sources of information. How much sentences has to be...
02 February 2015 6,771 16 View
Historical data/facts/events can be lost for many reasons. is it important to keep track of the history of a company/organization, and if so, why?
02 February 2015 10,037 10 View
How important are human biology-based feelings in science practice? Should efficient science be emotion-free, or not?
01 January 2015 4,466 5 View
Hypotheses are empirically tested with observations or perception of phenomena involving more or less complex methodology. Recent studies of the same natural phenomena use more complex...
01 January 2015 6,138 28 View
A question after reading some parts of the book from Cecilia Lewis Kausel (Design and Intuition. Structures, Interiors & The Mind) Historians situate the origin of human-created geometrical...
01 January 2015 6,159 67 View
Medical doctors face/treat many human diseases/handicaps for which we assume they do not occur in wildlife populations. For instance, evolutionary biologists might claim that handicapped/sick...
01 January 2015 9,878 66 View
See Barry Turner's manuscript also accessible via ResearchGate What is your opinion as a citizen?
01 January 2015 4,699 17 View
Farmers interact with natural processes, and often depend on the outcome of organism-environmental interactions. Should farmers know the basic ecology-based principles of organism-environment...
12 December 2014 3,319 28 View
Parents often force young children to eat vegetables. Why children don't like vegetables? What are your experiences/ thoughts?
12 December 2014 1,889 23 View
The assumption is that biology-based human body responses result adaptive responses placed in an evolutionary framework. What is your opinion?
12 December 2014 7,959 13 View
Tourism could be defined as a form of curiosity, perhaps to be placed in an evolutionary framework? Example: Evolutionary biologists might hypothesize that brain and neural organization has been...
12 December 2014 9,573 37 View
Ants are looking for food on a garden terrace with a pine tree. The terrace surface is often covered with pine needles, pine apples and pine resin droppings requiring cleaning to receive visitors....
12 December 2014 3,855 13 View
Accepting that whole research careers are devoted to Statistics alone, and journals only devoted to Statistics continuously produce new publications, how can a student, scientist or teacher from...
12 December 2014 9,777 6 View
All judgments rely on advice from what people call ‘experts’. As an example, someone might ask advice to develop an under-explored science domain for children or young students. If 20 experts...
12 December 2014 2,039 21 View
Given that there exist millions of publications in the world, why is it important to personally publish 10 publications versus 100 publications versus 1000 publications representing only a tiny...
11 November 2014 2,565 96 View
How do you distinguish between a published methodology-based study and another kind of published study given that all science studies use methods to improve knowledge?
11 November 2014 2,353 21 View
Daily experience in citizens: dreaming as model systemDaily experience and its memorization can construct huge sets of personal data stored in the individual brain. These personal data are often...
11 November 2014 2,760 70 View
The major problem with science citation indices (e.g. JIF, H) as a tool judging science quality is that they ignore underlying (biology-based) causes of citations. Reasons of citations are often...
10 October 2014 601 15 View
There are >>>100 terminologies published in science journals, of which some are called ambiguous. Can you give examples of ambiguous terminology, and if so, why do you think they are...
10 October 2014 7,298 58 View
People can have careers representing >20 years of research and publication history. Should these people expose all their publications in ResearchGate given that the publications can also be...
10 October 2014 6,897 17 View
Several disciplines claim they conduct long-term studies. What is your definition?
10 October 2014 6,219 17 View
Both in science and education, people can be confronted with situations where they can do something, but decide not to do it? What is your opinion? Do you know examples?
10 October 2014 4,992 40 View
Educators/scientists/teachers write and talk a lot. People judge what is written/spoken and exposed to others. This is happening continuously in politics. What can be the consequences of a single...
10 October 2014 3,183 11 View
Given the fast technical developments, how long should people wait to select or learn an appropriate tool? If catching up with learning new tools is a fulltime engineers job, and specific tools...
10 October 2014 5,537 43 View
As a scientists it is often difficult to refuse a proposition. Perhaps scientists become inefficient (e.g. forgetting to do/verify important aspects in a project, no time to respond to...
10 October 2014 2,012 10 View
There is a lot of competition to get financial support for research activities. Can this result in the presentation of research projects that are over-ambitious, also accepting that scientific...
10 October 2014 1,594 41 View
Interdependence or data points can be identified before or after data analysis, or not? How does the notion 'independence of data point' influence the organisation and analysis of your data sets?
09 September 2014 4,552 18 View
Can every discipline in science be defined as 'Ecology'? Wikipedia: Ecology is the scientific analysis and study of interactions among organisms and their environment, such as the interactions...
09 September 2014 9,998 39 View
A PhD thesis program might be defined as an education tool to form future researchers or future professors. In a thesis prepared by future scientific researchers, a simple sentence might...
08 August 2014 4,255 12 View
One of the popular words today is 'environment', used in quite different contexts. What is your definition?
08 August 2014 6,649 83 View
Empirically, time is measured via a clock expressing Change (rhythms, movements of needles, etc...). 'Time' therefore represents a human-defined system of 'Change' to which other systems of Change...
08 August 2014 3,011 29 View
I noticed that author names can be wrongly cited in the reference list of publications. Do you know why?
08 August 2014 7,429 15 View
I am currently reading a Dutch translation of the book from Michio Kaku (The future of the mind. The scientific quest to understand, enhance, and empower of mind). On page 19 I find 'Ik hoop that...
08 August 2014 470 97 View
Do you think there is a relationship between the content of acknowledgements presented in scientific publications and its subsequent success as reflected in citation rates? For instance, are...
08 August 2014 9,969 1 View
Informal discussions, advice given during meetings, advice given in referee reports could be seen as different forms of visible or invisible forms of supervision of students or collaborators. What...
08 August 2014 8,365 60 View
People that collaborate to write a manuscript together might provide comments at different stages of the writing process. Are comments that are provided during later stages of the writing process...
07 July 2014 5,360 11 View
Impacts of individual publications are often measured via citation rates. Average citation per publication rates differ across research domains (e.g. Mathematics versus Ecology). Is there a...
07 July 2014 6,763 37 View
Many scientific publications result from education products like PhD or Master work. However, students are also often educated to be able to have complex reasoning, to handle complex problems, or...
07 July 2014 8,291 99 View
I showed my son my hand and asked him, what do you see? If he answered 'hand', I could have said 'finger', 'nail', 'skin', etc.. . Because my question was not precise enough, I could always say...
07 July 2014 8,967 33 View
Students often participate at the different stages of a scientific project (e.g. field work, data analysis, etc..), often in an education framework (Bachelor, Master). Several of these...
07 July 2014 6,689 21 View
Ecologists or field biologists often work in study sites more or less accessible to a public that is not (always) familiar with the details of the research going on. People might have access to...
07 July 2014 6,799 30 View
Scientists can publish during several decades. The first own publications may have appeared more than 20 years ago. Do you still agree with the content of first own publications, and if not, why not?
07 July 2014 3,929 15 View
Data analyzers inspecting tables or figures might decide to exclude from statistical analyses unusual data points sometimes called 'outlier' data points. Statistical patterns and conclusions might...
06 June 2014 4,810 92 View
Empirical research is mainly based on observation and perception using brain structures and receptors that are individual-specific or species-specific. Different organisms do not perceive and...
06 June 2014 4,019 20 View
New (fantastic?) ideas are probably published every day. Perhaps proposing an idea during a discussion may take 5 seconds. By contrast, testing one idea may take years. Does this imply that the...
06 June 2014 3,792 39 View
Can a theory only have success in science when at least two people understand that theory and its scientific consequences? What is the minimum number of people required to produce a...
06 June 2014 2,171 21 View
What are the justifications to include people as co-authors in scientific publications, also accepting that the justifications of selection differ between individual researchers (e.g. personality...
05 May 2014 9,797 27 View
Whole universities and faculties are devoted to the study of one species, called humans. For instance, more than 2/3 of a university is probably devoted to the study and education of one species...
04 April 2014 8,132 25 View
Do people perceive exactly the same message differently in the presence versus absence of information related to education titles (e.g. PhD), CV's (e.g. number of publications, laboratories of...
04 April 2014 9,808 16 View
Do the contents of student reports result from language-competence or science competence? How much of the details in articles is truly captured by students that learn a new language to master the...
04 April 2014 6,326 91 View
The same word (e.g. adaptation) often has different meanings across science disciplines. Does imprecision in definition or use of science terminology result from that fact that scientists are not...
03 March 2014 5,467 9 View
People that sleep do not exploit energy (e.g. electricity, gas, fuel), they do not produce waste (e.g. household waste), they do not eat, etc. When people would sleep for one more hour each day,...
03 March 2014 1,976 24 View
When scientists describe (natural) phenomena during oral presentations or in publications, they often replace the description of these phenomena by interpretations of what the phenomena are...
03 March 2014 1,906 90 View
Some people claim that they forget a foreign language if they don't practice it regularly. For instance, people stay one year in a foreign country, learn to use the local language, but forget how...
02 February 2014 1,616 19 View
Many people are willing to participate at brief events, such as human performances in sports events (e.g. sprint), acrobatic performances in airplane meetings, fireworks displays, sunsets, or...
02 February 2014 4,772 9 View
How often do teams start to work with biological model systems without knowing the fundamental biology of species concerned or without directly consulting experienced people? To understand the...
02 February 2014 8,591 5 View
Why do some people avoid to be involved with open-access discussions? Is there a link with individual personality profiles (e.g. people might be afraid to be judged in public)? Is open-access...
01 January 2014 758 3 View
A film lasting about four minutes on YouTube shows examples of wildlife behaviour, like plant animal interactions during pollination. The film can practically be subdivided into a large number of...
01 January 2014 838 1 View
There exists no fundamental difference in the practice of science and religion when both accept existence of empirically unverifiable theory or accept existence of phenomena claimed to be...
01 January 2014 9,299 1 View
Many research disciplines like Ecology, Ethology or Psychology are considered soft sciences scientifically not truly 'exact' because of perceived complexity of phenomena investigated. But how...
01 January 2014 2,638 88 View
Philosophers or scientists aim to define unifying theories to explain as much as possible numerous phenomena based on a few principles. Philosophers might for instance state that two phenomena...
01 January 2014 9,526 87 View
If 1000 people would observe the same phenomenon 'C' and be asked to formulate a hypothesis 'C' to explain phenomenon 'C', what fraction of the observers would formulate hypothesis 'C' in exactly...
01 January 2014 4,733 30 View
In many research projects, phenomena are briefly observed, for instance to minimise impacts of human presence following observation or monitoring. For instance, phenology of nest construction in...
01 January 2014 6,916 14 View
How close are language and science evolution linked?
01 January 2014 8,984 9 View
Physical expression of extended phenotypes (e.g. Dawkins 1981) differs from physical expression of phenotypes producing physical expression of extended phenotypes. Should any form of energy...
01 January 2014 8,955 1 View
People have the tendency to chase away a fly from a table with food, although the fly does not eat and does not bite. Why? Does the fly suffer from discrimination? For instance, people hear...
01 January 2014 9,175 15 View
How a research domain is theoretically defined or framed might influence how it is practically perceived by citizens or experts from other research domains. This can be illustrated with the...
01 January 2014 5,354 41 View
Knowledge is evolving fast, which also implies that contents of older publications are not supported by recent publications. Why do people continue citing older publications not supported by...
01 January 2014 4,462 43 View