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ijon_the_human@lemmy.world 1 hour ago
Nikls94@lemmy.world 53 minutes ago
Obligatory “there’s a xkcd for anything, isn’t it?”
argh_another_username@lemmy.ca 6 hours ago
It’s a collaborative site.
danekrae@lemmy.world 5 hours ago
I like it, though there wasn’t a single one of the false facts that I was taught in schools.
“Dinosaurs shed their skin all at once like snakes”
“Girls are naturally not as good at math as boys”
I don’t mean to be rude, but If this was taught in your school, everyone around you is probably a moron.
kkj@lemmy.dbzer0.com 4 hours ago
Yeah, the concept is nice, but it tells me that the Big Bang doesn’t explain what happened before it (the leading hypothesis is that the Big Bang started time, so there is no “before”) and sources a Wikipedia article on spiders. Then, it cites the common myth about Daddy Longlegs being highly venomous, says that that wasn’t dispelled until 2020, and then cites a fucking BuzzFeed listicle.
Kushan@lemmy.world 4 hours ago
Yeah I didn’t get taught any of the stuff mentioned for me either.
One thing I did notice that wasn’t mentioned was the tongue map, that I was taught about in the 90’s - you know the one that said that your tongue has different areas for detecting different kinds of tastes - sweet at the front tip, sour at the back, that kind of thing. All bullshit.
whyNotSquirrel@sh.itjust.works 5 hours ago
Yeah I think that the “you have to discharge your batteries entirely before charging them” would be a better fit, even though it wasn’t false at the time, but the technology changed
CileTheSane@lemmy.ca 2 hours ago
“Planet X (Planet 9) exists and explains gravitational pull”
Weird conspiracy theories were not taught at my school.
Also:
In 2017, a photograph appeared to prove that Amelia Earhart survived her plane crash and was taken prisoner by the Japanese. However, it was later proven that the photo was taken two years before her disappearance, leaving the mystery unsolved.
Updated understanding emerged around 2010
The updated understanding emerged 7 years before the photo appeared?
This is why websites need downvotes.
Rocketpoweredgorilla@lemmy.ca 4 hours ago
Where did you go to school? I’ve never heard of either of those before.
webghost0101@sopuli.xyz 5 hours ago
Cool but flawed website.
Earlier times dont include myths that are on later years.
There is no overlap in myths between 1990 and 1970-80 but there is with the 60sw
“Sugar causes hyperactivity in children” is mentioned to have been corrected around 1995 but stops making the list from 1980 onward.
I wanna recommend it to others but i cant in this state.
RamenJunkie@midwest.social 3 hours ago
Pluto was reclassified as a dwarf planet due to not clearing its orbital path.
Why would they just lie about Pluto like that?
#Pluto4Lyf
Arioxel@jlai.lu 3 hours ago
Part of the reason Pluto’s classification hit so hard in the US is that it’s the only ‘planet’ ever discovered by an USian astronomer. That national pride made the 2006 decision sting more than elsewhere. Some of the top figures from the AAS even challenged the legitimacy of the decision afterwards.
US pride, again.
JackbyDev@programming.dev 5 hours ago
Just put in 2010 and most of everything it said is incredibly obvious. Plus some of the dates of updated sources seem really incorrect. For example, one of them is it is a myth that most oxygen comes from trees, but I very distinctly remember my math teacher of all people saying in 2006 or 2007 that when he was in school he corrected people that it’s mostly from plankton. And even if I’m misremembering this, he definitely said something about it being from plankton in those years, but it says the updated sources are from 2020.
It says that it is a myth that the big bang theory explains where the universe came from but in 2020 we found out it doesn’t explain what came before. Like… No? That’s always been what it is. Sure, it’s always been a Christian talking point to sort of say that, but then why say 2020?
But I guess it’s hard to really gauge what should and shouldn’t be included. I remember my 5th grade teacher telling me that Robert E. Lee was an honorable man. I don’t really remember exactly what all she said and if she got deeper into Lost Cause rhetoric than that, but she definitely said Lee was a “good man.”
smeg@feddit.uk 2 hours ago
What you were taught
“Mobile phones will never replace desktop computers”
What we know now
Mobile devices became the primary computing platform for billions of people worldwide.
That isn’t a response to the initial statement at all, which is very much an opinion or prediction rather than any claim to be a fact. I’m suddenly feeling pretty sceptical about this website.
heydo@lemmy.world 1 hour ago
Years since graduation:
Oh fuck this site!
Goddamn I’m old
SSUPII@sopuli.xyz 5 hours ago
Both 1960 and 2020 are showing the same 6 facts, and the facts shown were debunked years before 2020
noxypaws@pawb.social 2 hours ago
Cool site but sadly the link for “Learning styles (visual, auditory, kinesthetic) determine how you best learn” being debunked is both dead and missing from archive.org
I’d really like to know more since I’ve very recently been learning about very similar processing modalities for ADHD brains
Still, cool site and resource!
neuracnu@lemmy.blahaj.zone 2 hours ago
A short list of things you didn’t realize were false, stolen from the most recent episode of the You Are Not So Smart podcast:
- “The original 1938 radio broadcast of The War of the Worlds lead to a mass panic.” – It did not. However, rumors of a panic spread via newspaper op-eds about how it was a bad idea to get your news on any other medium besides newspapers. Citation: slate.com/…/orson-welles-war-of-the-worlds-panic-…
- “You can boil a frog in a pot by gradually raising the temperature of the water.” – This doesn’t work; frogs just jump out when they get uncomfortable. Citation: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Boiling_frog
- “Lemmings march off cliffs to their deaths because they blindly follow one another.” – They don’t. Citation: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lemming#Misconceptions
- “…but I saw it in a Disney documentary!” – Nope. Turns out the filmmakers paid local kids to capture a bunch of lemmings, spin them around to make them dizzy, then manually threw them off cliffs and filmed it. Citation: hyperallergic.com/…/white-wilderness-disney-natur…
PraiseTheSoup@midwest.social 1 hour ago
I actually learned the lemmings thing from the windows 95 era PC game “Lemmings”. This is also how I learned that lemmings have green hair!
FiskFisk33@startrek.website 1 hour ago
fun fact, lemmings was developed by a little studio called DMA designs, which later changed name to Rockstar North, and is nowadays most known for the GTA games.
HugeNerd@lemmy.ca 1 hour ago
Let’s go! Door creaks
Agent641@lemmy.world 1 hour ago
They are skilled with bricklaying and mining tools too ⛏️
JcbAzPx@lemmy.world 45 minutes ago
The War of the Worlds broadcast didn’t cause mass hysteria, but it did cause some people to go outside and shoot at the nearest water tower.
echodot@feddit.uk 2 hours ago
I thought everyone knew the lemmings thing was made up. But it’s become a bit of a meme nonetheless.
neuracnu@lemmy.blahaj.zone 1 hour ago
More extracts from that same podcast:
In each case, right up until the moment I received evidence to the contrary, all this misinformation, these supposed facts, felt true to me. I had believed them for decades and I had accepted them in part because they seemed to confirm all sorts of other ideas and opinions floating around in my mind. Plus they would have been great ways to illustrate complicated concepts, if not for the pesky fact that they were, in fact, not facts.
That’s one of the reasons why common misconceptions and false beliefs like these spread from conversation to conversation and survive from generation to generation and become anecdotal currency in our marketplace of ideas. They confirm our assumptions and validate our opinions and, thus, they raise few skeptical alarms. They make sense and they help us make sense of other things.
JargonWagon@lemmy.world 1 hour ago
TIL Lemmings are an actual creature and not just from the PC game Lemmings! I’m guessing that’s why it’s named “Lemmy” and then has a logo of a rodent. I just thought it was a random name and a drawing of a mouse this whole time.
BeardedGingerWonder@feddit.uk 2 hours ago
On the lemmings one, have you never seen hexbear?
kameecoding@lemmy.world 1 hour ago
What about the BBc documentary with the spaghetti trees?
Soapbox@lemmy.zip 3 hours ago
The mitochondria better still be the power house of the cell. Or we are going to flip some tables and burn the place down.
Faydaikin@beehaw.org 2 hours ago
See, I was told that too, but no one bothered to explain what that means. I still have no idea what that actually means. What is a powerhouse?
TonyTonyChopper@mander.xyz 2 hours ago
A mitochondrion (pl. mitochondria) is an organelle found in the cells of most eukaryotes, such as animals, plants and fungi. Mitochondria have a double membrane structure and use aerobic respiration to generate adenosine triphosphate (ATP), which is used throughout the cell as a source of chemical energy.[2] wickerpedia
HugeNerd@lemmy.ca 1 hour ago
They were a 1980s superband with Robert Palmer, I think.
echodot@feddit.uk 2 hours ago
It just means it’s the system that turns food molecules and oxygen into energy for the cell. The cell itself doesn’t know how to do this which is quite spectacular when you think about it. So if the mitochondria died the cell would die.
cdf12345@lemmy.zip 2 hours ago
When cells devide there’s a top cell and a bottom cell, the bottom cell is where the powerhouse is generated
Speculater@lemmy.world 3 hours ago
No one tell them.
DeathsEmbrace@lemmy.world 2 hours ago
Oil and gas is the powerhouse of the cell - Exxon Mobile
tetris11@lemmy.ml 2 hours ago
T H R I L L H O
crapwittyname@feddit.uk 1 hour ago
Five senses; taste, touch, smell, sight, hearing, acceleration, temperature, body configuration, pain, balance, time, hunger…
neuracnu@lemmy.blahaj.zone 55 minutes ago
Acceleration, temperature, body configuration (positioning), pain, balance and hunger are all related to touch in one way or another.
Time, however, is legit. Along with emotion. Maybe you could call the 6th sense cognition?
kameecoding@lemmy.world 1 hour ago
Isn’t acceleration just a sense of balance? Like you feel acceleration because the whatever fluid moves in your ears due to acceleration which is the same as balance.
Djehngo@lemmy.world 1 hour ago
I was going to say you have a static sense of what orientation you are in, e.g. you can tell standing up Vs lying on your front/back/side without relying on other senses and that feels different to the sensation of moving…
But thinking about it I guess the orientation sense is just detecting acceleration due to gravity?
crapwittyname@feddit.uk 1 hour ago
I guess so, but similar to how a lot of taste is actually perceived via smell? I suppose linear and angular acceleration could be two separate senses which encompass the sense of balance.
FiskFisk33@startrek.website 1 hour ago
i’d say the somatogravic illusion being a think kind of proves you right.
echodot@feddit.uk 3 hours ago
For me it’s the regions of the tongue thing. It never made any sense, and a 6 year old with a sugar cube could have disproved it. Yet they taught it in schools for years.
shalafi@lemmy.world 9 minutes ago
The idea, to me at least, wasn’t that the regions were completely distinct, merely dominant.
SkaveRat@discuss.tchncs.de 40 minutes ago
We did test it in school with different substances
I was like “I can mostly still taste it everywhere” and the teacher basically told me I was wrong
RiverRabbits@lemmy.blahaj.zone 2 hours ago
[deleted]spazzman6156@sh.itjust.works 2 hours ago
What
echodot@feddit.uk 2 hours ago
What chicken? Sorry I have no idea what your saying.
logicbomb@lemmy.world 3 hours ago
The one that immediately springs to mind doesn’t exactly fit the criteria, because it wasn’t even true at the time that I was taught it in public school in Texas. But my history teacher taught me that no real historian called it the “American Civil War,” and that it was correctly called “The War of Northern Aggression.” And, of course, although the Confederacy did want to keep slavery legal, their actual central reason for seceding was “states rights.”
Like I said, both of those are simply lies. Only propagandists call it “The War of Northern Aggression”, and it was always explicitly about slavery.
The sad thing is that I believed and repeated these lies for years after that. Note that, like most people, I didn’t have access to the internet to easily check things myself. Since at the time I had zero interest in reading about history, it was difficult to correct my knowledge.
It has demonstrated, to me at least, the importance of keeping propaganda away from children. The more you lie to children, the harder it will be for them to become functioning adults.
shalafi@lemmy.world 3 minutes ago
I had a college professor, Honors US History, teach us that the Civil War was about trade, an agrarian society against an industrial society. Which makes sense and is true in part, but I wish I had known to bring up the various state letters of secession naming slavery as the #1 concern. LOL, Mississippi’s is a doozy.
skisnow@lemmy.ca 2 hours ago
“The atomic bombings were necessary” was something we were expected to internalize as an indisputable hard fact, like gravity and oxbow lakes.
DragonTypeWyvern@midwest.social 1 hour ago
Whereas the actual phrase should be “the atomic bombings were necessary to force an immediate total surrender and scare them damn commies before they could take any credit for the Pacific theatre”
kameecoding@lemmy.world 1 hour ago
Is it not just the misinterpretation of the fact that the US wanted to end the war quicker to prevent sending more soldiers into a meatgrinder?
You can certainly call that “necessary” to prevent further deaths of US soldiers.
smh@slrpnk.net 1 hour ago
I was taught it was about states rights, too. In Kentucky, they were less forceful about calling it the "war of northern aggression.
Did you get taught that some slaves liked being slaves because it meant all their needs were met and they didn’t have to worry about anything?
logicbomb@lemmy.world 1 hour ago
I don’t recall specifically being taught that, but I do recall believing that was a fact at the time, so it is very likely that I was taught that in class.
I wouldn’t be surprised if there were a couple of slaves like that, but even so, it’s a misleading statement. I actually think that using the truth to lie is a worse sin than just outright lying, because it’s easier to mislead more people like that.
FlashMobOfOne@lemmy.world 4 hours ago
I can think of a few.
- That T-Rex’ vision was based on movement.
- Feathered dinosaurs are a thing.
- What we were taught as the ‘reservation’ system more closely resembled concentration camps, and indigenous people were given a choice between death marches and war. -That the US military was actually on the wrong side of nearly every civilian movement for greater rights, from suffrage, to labor, and now freedom of speech.
ExtremeDullard@piefed.social 3 hours ago
yardratianSoma@lemmy.ca 2 hours ago
“In some paleoartistic reconstructions, you will see furry T. rex,” says Tseng. “We think it’s likely that at least at one point in their lives, they probably had bodies that were partially or completely covered in feathers. … Maybe they were more like modern birds, which are among the most extravagant animals.”
~ Jack Tseng, a UC Berkeley vertebrate paleontologist and functional morphologist
greedytacothief@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 hours ago
If I’m remembering correctly vision is movement based, but animals have lots of ways to deal with it. Humans and other species that can move their eyeballs just like vibrate their eyes. But birds like chickens rely more on head bob I think. Couldn’t tell you what kind of muscles a tyranasaur has in its eyes.
Also being wrong on the Internet is the best way to find the right answer. So tell me how I’m wrong.
FlashMobOfOne@lemmy.world 2 hours ago
I could be wrong, and if I am, it’s just an opportunity to learn a new thing.
Have a great day.
capuccino@lemmy.world 2 hours ago
A bit curious here. How they did prove at first that T-Rex’ vision was based and movement and then how they did prove that doesn’t?
FlashMobOfOne@lemmy.world 2 hours ago
Not sure it’s provable, really, but the idea for T-Rex having movement-based vision is (if I’m remembering correctly, forgive me as it’s been a while) something that came from the Jurassic Park story, and more specifically how frog vision works, since they used frog DNA to birth their dinosaurs.
qaz@lemmy.world 2 hours ago
TonyTonyChopper@mander.xyz 11 minutes ago
Stovetop@lemmy.world 29 minutes ago
I can’t say I’ve ever heard the one about classical music making people “smarter”, but it would not surprise me if some music is simply more distracting than others. Most classical music is inoffensive enough to the ears that it’s ok to use as background noise, and the lack of lyrics doesn’t distract language processing.
What I’d be more curious about though is if there is any significant impact to quality of work during tests/study time/reading time with background noise like classical music versus just having dead silence.
shplane@lemmy.world 3 hours ago
The US south treated their slaves well. Even in high school, I was like “mmmm you suuuure about that?”
TeddE@lemmy.world 2 hours ago
In the era, “spare the rod, spoil the child” was considered good advice. If that’s how even loved ones were treated … slaves treated well? Press X to doubt.
DragonTypeWyvern@midwest.social 1 hour ago
There’s actually a lot of scholarship about how Southern plantation owners developed their child rearing philosophy on a misunderstanding of the Roman patriarchy combined with their newfangled “scientific racism,” conflating the discipline expected for both children and slaves.
ExtremeDullard@piefed.social 6 hours ago
The very architecture of the Internet (it was a written with a capital I back then) made it impossible to take over, and traffic would naturally route around any damaged links or nodes.
Google and CloudFlare have since proven that sonsabitches with enough money can subvert it completely, and it only takes a few dudes dragging an anchor from a boat to disconnect entire countries for weeks and months.
bjoern_tantau@swg-empire.de 6 hours ago
We had to write angry letters to our children’s school about 5 years ago to get them to stop teaching taste regions. It’s really baffling.
Jhuskindle@lemmy.world 3 hours ago
Ill never accept that Pluto is not a planet! JUSTICE FOR PLUTO
it_depends_man@lemmy.world 6 hours ago
The “tongues have taste zones” thing is the only thing that comes to mind.
grasshopper_mouse@lemmy.world 3 hours ago
Wash your chicken before cooking. Don’t do this, it just spreads salmonella all over your sink.
primrosepathspeedrun@anarchist.nexus 6 hours ago
The constitution of the united States.
dankm@lemmy.ca 1 hour ago
I was taught that Canada has 10 provinces and two territories. That was proven false before I even graduated high school!
Stupidmanager@lemmy.world 5 hours ago
Duamerthrax@lemmy.world 2 hours ago
The economy works and real estate is always a good investment. Also, the best thing that can happen to a nation is to be defeated by the US, because the US will then rebuild their infrastructure. The only example that teacher would cite was Japan.
Fm radio travels in waves while am radio travels in beams. This wasn’t a science teacher though. This was a media teacher’s wisdom.
JoMiran@lemmy.ml 4 hours ago
recently_Coco@lemmy.blahaj.zone 4 hours ago
IQ tests!
They are standardized eugenics and should be rethought entirely
Randomgal@lemmy.ca 1 hour ago
That website is called ChatGPT lmao
the_q@lemmy.zip 3 hours ago
Bears sleep for their entire hibernation and recycle their waste.
frezik@lemmy.blahaj.zone 6 hours ago
The story of how North and South America were settled by the first humans. What I was taught was that the Bering Sea was frozen at the end of the last ice age, and then glaciers opened up and people migrated southward.
The problem is that the timing is too tight and the migration would have to have happened too quickly. Many native groups have long seen this story as flawed, as well.
This was covered in the book “1492”, and at the time of publication, researchers weren’t quite sure what model to replace it with. Probably some of the migration was using boats along the west coast rather than going over land. That book is getting pretty old now, though, and I’m not sure if or where things have settled out.
lath@piefed.social 5 hours ago
Alphas.
White Jesus.
IQ.
9 out of 10 dentists.
Apple a day.
Midnitte@beehaw.org 6 hours ago
Feel like a lot of the “myths” are also just because you’re not going to teach a 16-year-old about quantum mechanics to explain why table salt exists
dethedrus@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 hours ago
Or history that was not covered…
GooseGang@beehaw.org 2 hours ago
The food pyramid for sure. I’m not sure if it was taught outside the US
audricd@piefed.social 5 hours ago
They are two genders.
Zerush@lemmy.ml 58 seconds ago
The reallity ist that you create a website with Google and it filled out automaticly your complete Curriculum Vitae from Birth to now.