Is the science category a source for lazy students?

Question

I was very general in my question and never pointed my finger at science students. The notion that the easiest way to get an answer is the best would suggest being lazy. Anyone who was defensive about this is probably guilty.

Answer 1

pretty much.

maybe i'm biased because i'm a "scientifical", but d**n, some of these questions (lifted from homework word-for-word) are just pathetic--i remember when i was in school and when i didn't understand something i read my text book again (because...you know, you're supposed to go to the text first since that's where your course material is coming from).

most of the time it seems as if there are probably only ~5 questions per results page that ask questions out of curiosity/wanting other's opinions while all the rest are do-my-homework-for-me "questions"

Answer 2

I'm a 4th year bio major and I can tell you we are not lazy.  I work my *** off and when I do use yahoo answers it is to check my work or enhance my work by considering the opinions of other people interested in the same field I am.  I wonder what makes you think the people on the science category are any lazier than any of the other categories.  Besides when trying to obtain an answer it makes perfect sense to take the easiest route to get there otherwise you are just wasting time.

Answer 3

At least the physics section.  Astronomy and this category tend to draw more people who are simply interested.  But it really bugs me when they don't even bother phrasing it as if it was an actual question, or taking the problem numbers off.  It would take about 20 seconds to make your homework seem like a genuine question, and then no one would mind answering it.

Answer 4

For the most part, it is. I am a chemist, and I like to look through the chemistry section for a question I can answer, but 99% of the time it is copied and pasted from homework. I'm not sure that it's so much a source for lazy students, but rather that it indicates a general feeling of apathy toward science. Besides tired creationism vs. evolution arguments, there aren't a lot of questions coming from pure curiosity rather than homework.

LG: It sounds like your questions aren't the ones this question is asking about. I think it's the questions like "Balance this equation PLEASE ASAP THX" or like "Name the 5 differences between X and Y" or even a numbered list, 1-20, of math problems.

Answer 5

The ones that ask for multiple answers are real lazy

Answer 6

What do you mean? In my experience, science students are some of the hardest working. They have to be hard working because being a science major is much more difficult and requires more work and is more time consuming than other majors. (BTW I'm an astro-physics major.)

If you are talking about the people who ask questions on yahoo answers, I would argue they are humanities majors forced to take a science for distribution credit.