Enjoying a (long overdue) dance with Tessalicious yesterday I realised that a surprisingly high proportion of my favourite dance partners - Sparkles, Lisa, Jayne are others I know of - are scientists.
Why should this be?
And what other occupations (besides professional dancer ) do you know of with such a concentration of talented dancers among their ranks?
I remember a 'what do you do' poll a while back asking for forumites occupations but I can't find the link
Is being an OAP an occupation? Then that wins hands down!
I have noticed care professionals (nurses, doctors, counsellors, physios, social workers (well me!)) and IT bods too.
The terms, care professional, IT bod and scientist are all extremely broad so we probably should have a lot of them around.
is it me or does this thread have a very weird title ? When I hear appliance, I think washing machine and the likes...
Did you mean that or application ?
Not that I would want to correct an English man on his English.
I'll just assume appliance has another meaning that I don't understand, and it's probably rude anyway...
I'm offically flummoxed.
A scientific answer to a scientific question...it seems to me that people who are attracted to work/study science are likely to have good concentration and learning skills, plus a natural affinity for numbers/patterns/logical sequences. I would hazard a guess that they are also more likely to be precise, accurate types, prepared to commit to work hard in order to learn something. (Science exams aren't easy).
All these characteristics are also consistent with learning dancing, dancing accurately and sticking with it to achieve a high level of technical competence.
I'd be interested to hear whether the scientist-dancers think this is a likely-sounding explanation?
I've found that most of the men I dance with are either IT geeks or scientists. (was the same when I was ballroom dancing) Maybe it's a way to express creativity
And yes, I'm a scientist too (sort of )
I'm an IT man though I do take a close personal, if not professional, interest in rubbish chutes
Not everything that I say is rude, Frenchy.
And there endeth my 2000th post - as ephemeral, inconsequential and pointless as the preceding 1,999
13 posts so far and no poll
I'm a research scientist but I'll leave it to others to say what they think of my dancing but it is good to see that the likes of Lisa and Sparkles (sorry ones that I know that RobD has meantioned) undo the stereotypes that people associate with science
There could be something in Miss Flicts hypothesis (just put in a big word to prove I'm a scientist) but to be honest I've never really thought about it. I just notice that there is quite a mix of occupations at dancing. I suppose quite a few of my favourite dancers fall into the scientist/health care field, the rest I really don't know what their occupation is, should really find out
Last edited by pmjd; 26th-November-2007 at 02:32 PM. Reason: miscounted
I think I'd go for an opposite explanation (as a half scientist half engineer myself, I know I'm weird) , dancing allows me to express a lot of creativity that I have less room to express in my day to day job, where I have to stick to many rules (or make others stick to them, anyway ) and established processes.
always helpful Ducasi
no wonder I don't know though
now here's a surprise !
I think there's something to that. I think though that in these (science, medicine & IT) professions, there tends to be a lack of eligible, sociable and desirable people of the appropriate sex. So people are forced to look outside of work to meet these people. The MJ world is full of people who are eligible, sociable and desirable.
Let your mind go and your body will follow. – Steve Martin, LA Story
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