When I was in school, we were taught that vaccines work. /s
Can you think of any now?
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wer2@lemmy.zip 1 month ago
BurgerBaron@piefed.social 1 month ago
I went through the two websites posted here for graduation year 2008. The only incorrect thing I was taught that I still believed was:
“Learning styles (visual, auditory, kinesthetic) determine how you best learn”
False. Huh.
Echolynx@lemmy.zip 1 month ago
I just picked up a book on this! There is, of course, an incredibly racist history to the use of these concepts.
multifariace@lemmy.world 1 month ago
Those were disproven long before then. They are interesting to think about as different sensory inputs to engage, but are complete nonsense as far as learning styles.
RedFrank24@lemmy.world 1 month ago
…So what learning styles are there?
echodot@feddit.uk 1 month ago
My brother had to do that for the military at one point. I don’t know what the point was because apparently nothing ever came of it they just did the tests got their results and then apparently everyone forgot about it, because everyone carried on getting trained in exactly the same manner anyway.
BurgerBaron@piefed.social 1 month ago
Oh yeah it never was applied. I just remember one of my high school English (Language Arts) teachers talking about it.
Midnitte@beehaw.org 1 month 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
ExtremeDullard@piefed.social 1 month ago
Well there are deepening levels of understanding depending on the learner’s pre-existing (e.g. matter > atoms > protons/neutrons/electrons > fermions), and there are things that are just plain incorrect, that were assumed to be correct, because science advances (e.g. Pluto is a grey ball of boring nothingness very similar to Mercury).
crank0271@lemmy.world 1 month ago
Pluto is a grey ball of boring nothingness very similar to Mercury
It isn’t?!
Klear@quokk.au 1 month ago
DragonTypeWyvern@midwest.social 1 month ago
Relevant Pratchett
sleen@lemmy.zip 1 month ago
so what you’re saying is that this is ageism. And we are infantilizing individuals irrespective of their experience and actual understanding.
shalafi@lemmy.world 1 month ago
Never been a big fan of children, but they fucking love me, even if I’m clearly annoyed at the time. I was asking my ex-wife about this mystery. “You don’t talk to them like kids, you talk to them like little adults and they respect that.”
She was right! I talk to them like adults that simply don’t know as much as I do.
ghen@sh.itjust.works 1 month ago
The fact that we thought Pluto was a planet seemed absolutely insane at the time but none of the kids could question the adult in the room when the stupid rock is literally not even staying in its own lane
echodot@feddit.uk 1 month ago
It doesn’t help that planet has such an incredibly vague definition. Earth is a planet but so is Jupiter but other than being spherical they don’t have anything in common. In terms of similarities, Pluto is much more like Earth then Jupiter is like Earth, at least Pluto has a solid surface.
ieGod@lemmy.zip 1 month ago
It’s not vague at all. It’s a classification that needs to meet three criteria. The lack of this classification is why it was taught that pluto was a planet, but once these things were formalized in 2006 it became clear that pluto no longer met the criteria.
fodor@lemmy.zip 1 month ago
That’s a definitional question, though, is it not? I don’t think any facts actually changed.
JackbyDev@programming.dev 1 month ago
Yes. Ceres was considered a planet when discovered in 1801 and around the 1950s began to be classified as an asteroid. It is now considered a dwarf planet like Pluto. It’s the largest thing in the asteroid belt but is still sort of planet shaped.
ghen@sh.itjust.works 1 month ago
Okay then maybe the electron shells model of an atom. That was taught as fact and it’s definitely not true even though it’s still useful
QuoVadisHomines@sh.itjust.works 1 month ago
Most of what I learned about genetics is incorrect as when I graduated we thought DNA ran the show.
We were also wrong about why the USSR fell (not a huge surprise)
NocturnalMorning@lemmy.world 1 month ago
Why did we think think the USSR fell? Also DNA does run the show…damn, my genetics knowledge is shit. Apparently we graduated the same year 🤣
QuoVadisHomines@sh.itjust.works 1 month ago
I graduated when people accepted Gaidar’s propositions whole cloth and now we blame Gorbachev a lot more than we did in 2000
ChickenLadyLovesLife@lemmy.world 1 month ago
Why did we think think the USSR fell?
The most common belief was that it fell because Ronald Reagan ordered Gorbachev to “tear down that wall”.
lath@piefed.social 1 month ago
Alphas.
White Jesus.
IQ.
9 out of 10 dentists.
Apple a day.
Speculater@lemmy.world 1 month ago
I recently told my mother that I’m probably the most intelligent person she will ever meet while explaining why her conservative briefs are dumb as shit and she defensively asked what my IQ is…
I was no contact for the past eight years or so and it was at a family reunion that we saw one another.
I don’t know my IQ, I’m actually a pretty slow learner, and I have horrible test anxiety. But as a polyglot physicist with a dash of perpetual autodidactic inclinations, I’m pretty well informed and I don’t know if intelligence can be measured, but I know it when I see it.
It’s funny that conservatives think quick wit and fast words equate to intelligence without ever stopping to think about the substance.
lath@piefed.social 1 month ago
Objectively speaking, intelligence is considered to be the ability to reason.
Following that line, high intelligence would be the ability to reason well.However, we humans do well because we specialize. It was discovered early on that we can’t do everything.
One could say it’s our individuality which drives us towards having different proficiencies and the entire chain of schooling would better serve to explore and encourage pursuing such specializations.Where the means to cultivate proficiency are lacking, the end result will often be incomplete.
That shouldn’t mean there is a lack of intelligence, but that it hasn’t been developed to its potential.
I would say.. the base intelligence remains the same while expectations rise in concert with each own’s path of development.Life is neither easy nor fair. And opportunities aren’t equal. So i often try to remind myself that perspective changes with experience and as such any standard we set ourselves and others to tend to be laced with personal bias.
missfrizzle@discuss.tchncs.de 1 month ago
I recently told my mother that I’m probably the most intelligent person she will ever meet
and so humble, too! seriously though, this is a major red flag. I rarely find smart people to brag about how smart they are.
ILikeBoobies@lemmy.ca 1 month ago
School experiences are too varied for such a site to exist. Examples:
Climate change was universally agreed upon to exist and be caused by people 30 years ago. For some reason it no longer appears to be.
Leif Erikson was taught to us back then but you’ll find people today that celebrate Columbus.
1rre@discuss.tchncs.de 1 month ago
The Leif Erikson one is very subjective though; you could celebrate:
- The first humans to cross the Bering Strait, which is a long extinct lineage
- The earliest ancestors to settle the Americas, whom we don’t even know the descendants of
- The first Europeans to reach the Americas, ie Leif Erikson (Polynesia did it much later)
- The first people to cross an ocean to get to the Americas, most likely Polynesians but possibly Columbus
- The first Europeans to form a permanent settlement in the Americas, ie Columbus
- The founders of the forerunner to the US, ie Walter Raleigh & co
- The founding fathers for founding the US
And plenty more I’m sure you could come up with
humorlessrepost@lemmy.world 1 month ago
The Leif Erikson one is very subjective though;
you could learn all the words to De Colores
Bloomcole@lemmy.world 1 month ago
Climate change was universally agreed upon to exist and be caused by people 30 years ago.
It certainly wasn’t
Overshoot2648@lemmy.today 1 month ago
Fruit and vegetables being separate categories: Fruits are actually a type of vegetable. Additionally cucumbers are melons.
Cyan being a light blue: It is actually 50% green.
Simple machines are fundamental: They completely ignore compliant mechanisms and aren’t atomic. Actually atomic mechanisms would be defined by the type of force, the shape, and the compliance.
The only form of Socialism is Marxism and Communism and Capitalism means markets: Look up Mutualism or Syndicalism.
Basically everything with pop psychology.
I am sure there are more, but these were just top of my head.
echodot@feddit.uk 1 month ago
What high school did you go to that they were discussing Marxism and communism. Most schools don’t really get that advanced and don’t go much beyond teaching about the major wars.
Jhuskindle@lemmy.world 1 month ago
Ill never accept that Pluto is not a planet! JUSTICE FOR PLUTO
Arioxel@jlai.lu 1 month ago
Fun fact :
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.
shalafi@lemmy.world 1 month ago
I dunno. I’m American and knew that, didn’t care. My ire was simply having 4 decades under my belt of knowing Pluto as the 9th planet.
pinball_wizard@lemmy.zip 1 month ago
Yes. The Pluto thing is a huge violation of the “rule of cool”.
If there are bigger rocks than Pluto in orbit, we should promote some cool new big space rocks to be new secret bonus planets!
lemmydividebyzero@reddthat.com 1 month ago
🤏 small planet, hihi 🤏
grasshopper_mouse@lemmy.world 1 month ago
Wash your chicken before cooking. Don’t do this, it just spreads salmonella all over your sink.
JcbAzPx@lemmy.world 1 month ago
Ideally you’d wash your sink too.
RiverRabbits@lemmy.blahaj.zone 1 month ago
I thought this wasn’t about actually using a sink and water, but rather, using lemon juice to cover the chicken as the enzymes break up the protein and tenderize the meat?
Echolynx@lemmy.zip 1 month ago
What you were taught “Flu shots give you the flu”
What we know now A common misconception…
“Updated understanding emerged around 2020”
Updated for whom? Anti-vaccine idiots?
echodot@feddit.uk 1 month ago
Well some shots do work like that. But you usually don’t get symptoms unless you are immunocompromised and it’s a live (but weakened) version of the virus.
ulterno@programming.dev 1 month ago
They were just a little wrong, “Flu shots give you a flu”.
There are 2 types of these shots essentially:
- the pathogen is put into some other thing that creates stuff that fights against said pathogen. That stuff is then extracted and given in the shot.
- the pathogen itself is processed and given to you. This causes your body to make stuff that fights against the pathogens. Your body then vaguely remembers how the pathogen felt and hence, increases the reaction your body does to any attack from a similar pathogen that comes the next time. This is the one corresponding to the above quote.
Of course, if your immune system is weak, the processed pathogen can be enough to give you quite a bit of a problem.
Echolynx@lemmy.zip 1 month ago
I know there are different types of vaccines, but really, experience should be enough to prove this assumption wrong many times over. I guess people just don’t get their flu shots…
Alcoholicorn@mander.xyz 1 month ago
Rome didn’t have special rooms for people to vomit in, then resume feasting.
Soviet blocking brigades weren’t machine gun nests set up to mow down retreating soviet soldiers.
Vietnam had a regular army, it wasn’t entirely a guerrilla force.
Kolanaki@pawb.social 1 month ago
Rome didn’t have special rooms for people to vomit in, then resume feasting.
This is more like not being taught anything other than that they had “vomitoriums,” without being told what they were. Vomitoriums existed. They still exist, too. It just means a large opening or passageway. Like the entrance/exit to the colluseum.
Alcoholicorn@mander.xyz 1 month ago
No, they literally taught that the romans feasted so much they had special rooms for vomiting in. One of my aunts was incredulous that it was no longer taught, and insisted she had been to rome and saw the vomitoria, and remains convinced that it’s just some new theory by some fringe historian.
SpaceCowboy@lemmy.ca 1 month ago
Vietnam had a regular army, it wasn’t entirely a guerrilla force.
Did they not teach that North Vietnam (and therefore the NVA) existed?
Alcoholicorn@mander.xyz 1 month ago
Kind of. That’s not really reconciled with the a general impression that the US won every single battle, and couldn’t find any more enemies to fight, because the Vietnamese would run away and hide in the woods or among the locals and the US only lost the war at home.
yabai@lemmy.world 1 month ago
Oh I’ve got a good one. Learned in the American south. Supposedly the American Civil War was not fought over slavery, but differing railroad track widths. Slavery was a minor detail that was a scape goat for the north to force the south to use its standard railroad width.
prime_number_314159@lemmy.world 1 month ago
It’s not just about slavery. There was also state’s rights (to slavery), and the economic disparity (turns out free men work harder than slaves?!), and a clash of religious ideals (people that interpret the Bible as pro-slavery vs people that believe benevolence requires abolition). There were even one or two spots where water usage rights and federal funding were in controversy.
kunaltyagi@programming.dev 1 month ago
The American South will attempt to make any minor issue as the root cause of the Civil War, except for the slavery issue.
Afterall, slavery and racism wasn’t that ingrained in the society. If you look past the court cases, extra judicial killings, lynching, riots, coups and massacres.
Magnum@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 month ago
lol
RandomlyGeneratedName@lemmy.world 1 month ago
In the US, Trump would demand this site be “de-woke-ified” to remove “conservative bias” by having any conservative fact disproven removed from results.
Professorozone@lemmy.world 1 month ago
Sure, some are still taught. Like you can catch a cold from being in the cold.
Alteon@lemmy.world 1 month ago
I always understood it as your immune system gets weaker from being in the cold and makes it easier for viruses and such to propogate in your body. We’re constantly fighting off minor infections and disease, and thankfully our immune systems are pretty strong…cold does not help it.
I’d say this one is sort of true…in the right context.
Professorozone@lemmy.world 1 month ago
My wife likes to say that so she can keep believing that you can catch a “cold.”
No cold virus. No cold.
bitwolf@sh.itjust.works 1 month ago
I thought the opposite. That when you’re cold, and your body releases Norepinephrine, that it re-enforces your immune system.
Which makes sense to me from a personal experience. I like to run around in the snow in tshirt and shorts and embrace the cold. I very rarely catch colds and always thought it was genetics and not a product of environment
CubitOom@infosec.pub 1 month ago
Um…what’s it say about Tylenol?
Duamerthrax@lemmy.world 1 month 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.
audricd@piefed.social 1 month ago
They are two genders.
Adderbox76@lemmy.ca 1 month ago
When I graduated highschool, the idea that some dinosaurs had feathers and evolved into birds was still “fringe science”.
Srootus@sh.itjust.works 1 month ago
In my moc-GCSE year(s), my science teacher was so confident that blood was blue in the veins, I called her out on it but she was so adamant about it.
MacNCheezus@lemmy.today 1 month ago
Unironically, that sounds like a great task for AI.
GooseGang@beehaw.org 1 month ago
The food pyramid for sure. I’m not sure if it was taught outside the US
MrSulu@lemmy.ml 1 month ago
“Yeah, but they ain’t disproved my beleif in the flat earth” (sarcasm because crappy day in work)
the_q@lemmy.zip 1 month ago
Bears sleep for their entire hibernation and recycle their waste.
maxxadrenaline@lemmy.world 1 month ago
KETCHUP IS A VEGETABLE!
dankm@lemmy.ca 1 month ago
I was taught that Canada has 10 provinces and two territories. That was proven false before I even graduated high school!
moseschrute@lemmy.ml 1 month ago
And the website looks like it’s from the year you input
Kolanaki@pawb.social 1 month ago
Every subject other than English and Math have tons of things that were wrong, misunderstood, or made up back when I was in school. 😩
Jax@sh.itjust.works 1 month ago
Who would be the arbiter of truth in this instance?
Like it’s a cool idea, just practically impossible.
JoMiran@lemmy.ml 1 month ago
#Pluto
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MelodiousFunk@slrpnk.net 1 month ago
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Arioxel@jlai.lu 1 month 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.
(I copy-pasted this comment for the third time even though I don’t like to do that, but it’s important to know where does such reaction come from : partly from pure national pride)
DragonTypeWyvern@midwest.social 1 month ago
That’s interesting because it’s completely bullshit.
Americans don’t know SHIT about that lol
Eq0@literature.cafe 1 month ago
Interesting, because I saw a looot of Europeans being very emotionally involved in the topic!
RamenJunkie@midwest.social 1 month ago
Always a planet, fuck scienctists! (Seriously, nerdy chicks are hot, fuck them.")
Knock_Knock_Lemmy_In@lemmy.world 1 month ago
A dwarf planet is still a planet
maxwells_daemon@lemmy.world 1 month ago
Average cluttered orbital neighborhood fan
Vs
Double dwarf planet Pluto - Charon system enjoyer