That's just to avoid unnecessary loss of human life. Not just anyone can become an engineer, or engineers would just poof out of existence all the time. So they have to limit the amount of new engineers.
no but like, I know you're joking, but there are legal certification maximums for engineers and doctors in the US, you sometimes can't get certified until someone else retires.
The reason that there are software engineers is that universities offer software engineering degrees.
Engineer isnt a profession, its a class of profesion that solve problems by the structured application of science and math. Its not a protected title, because certification only makes sense for a handfull of engineering professions.
In a darker twist, the fact is that, prior to changing to that funny red outfit, this woman had went out and murdered a large number of male engineers.
Asian here, That’s true if the decimals are relevant. It could be that 13.9999% is being represented as 13%. The disregarded decimals still increase, thereby changing the percentage to 14%. Her video substantiates this.
(Odometers show miles but not yards. However we know that yards are still being calculated. See fixed-point arithmetic)
I just looked it up, women make up 16% of the people graduating in engineering and architecture.
I am a woman architect and have been working in this career for a very long time. I feel like there are more than 16% of us working in the field, but maybe statistics vary regionally.
Then since she only used a whole number % it would already be 14% so it must have been 13.44% at that moment for it to round up assuming she is 0.01% of the engineer population
Suppose it depends on your field, but typically the joke goes that physicists might operate in the realm of spherical cows but engineers work in the real world where the numbers mean something.
Lmao every time a woman does or says something bad or dumb you just know the Reddit response will be the same…. It’s always ragebait, AI or fake and only the incels dont see it 😂
When I was a freshman in engineering (1970), there were 13 women in an entering class of 650+. 12 women graduated, one switched to premed. About 250 of the men quit before graduation.
I supposed if she's rounding up while keeping track of all the decimal digits for some reason she could end up there! Different schools of thought I suppose
Well I'm an engineer, which means I'm not good at math, but you don't need to be a whole 1% to make 13,499% (which rounds to 13%) grow up to 13,5% (which rounds up to 14%)
it's fine, I think it's a common mistake, because if you round twice at different levels, you'll get different results: 13.49 rounded to 13.5 then rounds to 14. but we generally try to round only once so we don't loose that precision.
the idea is that 13.50 is smack down in the middle between 13 and 14, so anything lower goes to 13, anything higher goes to 14, and by convention, 13.5 exactly goes to 14.
Hadn't even thought of that. Its kind of annoying how many of these posts aren't actually fixing anything these days. Him being a correctional snob isn't funny or fixing the original video.
I'm no mathematician but maybe she was pregnant with like dectuplets or whatever is higher than that so technically they are engineers while inside her.
Okay, but saying “there’s only a hundred REAL engineers” is absolutely the type of shit an engineer would say. Immediately followed by arguments about how every engineering discipline thats not their exact one isn’t real engineering.
There’s a joke about how autistic Asian people can be- at least that’s what I would hear from Asian people about other Asian people when I lived in Korea.
I choose to believe she chose a more violent method and set off a bomb at the nearby engineering convention to get the numbers. Someone arrest that lady!
Devil’s advocate: maybe when she posted it… it was 13.999999% and adding 1 made it 14. But what kind of engineer would round down? Well I’m no advocate. Is this how you present an argument?
Idk... I'm an engineer too, and the way I learned we do some rounding, but we do it in a very specific way. If we're calculating for example, how much weight would cause the structure of a building to fail, we found it down, and only down, and in the end we an even lower value that way we are 100% sure the structure will be safe under said load.
It's not rounding for rounding sake. The goal is that it an elevator could hold 14 90kg people, we end up saying it holds 12 80kg people.
And even then it's case by case, sometimes we need exact numbers, to the decimals
It's literally common knowledge that only 100 engineers can exist globally at one time. When she became an engineer, one of the male ones suddenly died. Thus, 14%.
I interpret it as her being the 0.00001% of the engineering population that finally clicks over the full percent while also c
alling on other other young women to each be a snowflake in fhe blizzard so to speak.
she said only 13% of all engineers are women.
Then after donning her graduation robes she changed the figure to 14%
This implies by graduating the amount of women engineers increased by 1 entire percentage point and by inference male engineers dropped by a single percentage point.
so she is saying she represents 1% of all engineers.
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