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Like I have a bachelors degree in engineering. Is that intermediate or advanced? I feel like saying my science knowledge is anything beyond intermediate is a bi

Like I have a bachelors degree in engineering. Is that intermediate or advanced? I feel like saying my science knowledge is anything beyond intermediate is a bit of an overstatement personally.

wongarsu 3y ago
> I feel like saying my science knowledge is anything beyond intermediate is a bit of an overstatement personally That's not overconfident, I'm lead to conclude that you have advanced science knowledge.
- f1shy 3y ago
  Absolutely advance. No question. At least in this context.
burnished 3y ago
I didnt find out what standard they use, but personally I'd say intermediate sounds about right. I also have an engineering degree and while I know more than the average bear in many scientific disciplines I couldn't say that any of it is advanced. I'm thinking of times where I went to the library to dig deeper on a topic and discovered a huge and complex topic just laying in wait.
at_a_remove 3y ago
I have one in physics, but I have also taken a rather a lot (given the degree) in biology, chemistry, civil engineering, and electrical engineering. Went some places also not usual in math. And I've worked in IT since forever. There's a lot of stuff where I take a glance at it and realize I'm just looking at a single hull plate on a battleship. What I am getting at is that if you have just intermediate knowledge in a bunch of places, I think it lends itself to sensing that you're just a paramecium stuck to the side of some N-dimensional construct. There's so much. I had a professor who was the expert in the second excited state of Helium-3. That was his thing. Just a single needle in the whale-sized blowfish of physics.
threeseed 3y ago
> Like I have a bachelors degree in engineering I do to and unquestionably I am beginner level. Each scientific field has specialised and become so dense with knowledge that even new graduates in that field would barely be classed as intermediate.
xormapmap 3y ago
In my view, bachelor's degree is beginner, especially if you haven't got any further knowledge than that from work experience or anything.

Like I have a bachelors degree in engineering. Is that intermediate or advanced? I feel like saying my science knowledge is anything beyond intermediate is a bit of an overstatement personally.

wongarsu 3y ago

> I feel like saying my science knowledge is anything beyond intermediate is a bit of an overstatement personally That's not overconfident, I'm lead to conclude that you have advanced science knowledge.

f1shy 3y ago
Absolutely advance. No question. At least in this context.

burnished 3y ago

I didnt find out what standard they use, but personally I'd say intermediate sounds about right. I also have an engineering degree and while I know more than the average bear in many scientific disciplines I couldn't say that any of it is advanced. I'm thinking of times where I went to the library to dig deeper on a topic and discovered a huge and complex topic just laying in wait.

at_a_remove 3y ago

I have one in physics, but I have also taken a rather a lot (given the degree) in biology, chemistry, civil engineering, and electrical engineering. Went some places also not usual in math. And I've worked in IT since forever. There's a lot of stuff where I take a glance at it and realize I'm just looking at a single hull plate on a battleship. What I am getting at is that if you have just intermediate knowledge in a bunch of places, I think it lends itself to sensing that you're just a paramecium stuck to the side of some N-dimensional construct. There's so much. I had a professor who was the expert in the second excited state of Helium-3. That was his thing. Just a single needle in the whale-sized blowfish of physics.

threeseed 3y ago

> Like I have a bachelors degree in engineering I do to and unquestionably I am beginner level. Each scientific field has specialised and become so dense with knowledge that even new graduates in that field would barely be classed as intermediate.

xormapmap 3y ago

In my view, bachelor's degree is beginner, especially if you haven't got any further knowledge than that from work experience or anything.