• Question: How will studying science help me in the future?

    Asked by jgb404 to Kate, Kieren, Nicola, Rowena, Roy on 13 Mar 2014.
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      Rowena Fletcher-Wood answered on 13 Mar 2014:

      Science gives you good problem solving skills and teaches you to be sceptical and know when to trust evidence. If you do science there are lots of jobs available to you that otherwise might not be because these skills and maths and explaining skills are useful in many jobs. You can do many art subject jobs without an arts degree but you need science to do science jobs because of all the precise information it includes.

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      Nicola Rogers answered on 13 Mar 2014:

      If you like to learn how things work, in order to learn how to fix things when they break, or how to understand everyday phenomena, then science will teach you the skills to do this. It also teaches you to find things out for yourself rather than always relying on other people’s reasons for things.

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      Kate Nicholson answered on 14 Mar 2014:

      Hopefully is will make you question things rather than blindly accepting what you are told, and encourage you to find the answers for yourself by looking at the evidence. This is important socially so that we can retain the democratic way of life, not just believing everything the media tells us, and hopefully avoid things like the MMR vaccine/autism myth that has resulted in so many children suffering diseases that could easily be prevented.

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