I guess the big one for me is the whole Mozart for babies thing. It wasn’t Mozart’s music making babies and young children smarter, it was a combination of more affluent parents or at least parents with college plus educations having time and income to spend on enrichment activities.
Can you think of any now?
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ninjabard@lemmy.world 8 months ago
Eq0@literature.cafe 8 months ago
Oh, thanks! That makes so much more sense!
On a tangential note, I find hilarious which songs my toddler picks up and which ones are immediately forgotten. Somehow APT and Hey Jude are the shit, most of everything else doesn’t stick. Wonder why…
echodot@feddit.uk 8 months ago
I think it’s just songs with the right kind of beat that they like. My sister’s kid is very partial to Uptown Girl, of course she doesn’t know the lyrics but she can sort of sing the tune. It took me a while to work out what it was.
Joeffect@lemmy.world 8 months ago
Yeah, but that doesn’t stop baby toy markers from including that shit in every product
RandomlyGeneratedName@lemmy.world 8 months 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.
nuggie_ss@lemmings.world 8 months ago
That whole “got milk” campaign was a load of bullshit.
It turns out only about 30% of the global human population is able to even digest milk.
Landless2029@lemmy.world 8 months ago
Yeah but those avacadoes…
Jason2357@lemmy.ca 8 months ago
That, and most traditional dairy consuming European cultures never actually drank milk. They made cheese and butter, then poured the remainder in the pig trough to turn those calories into pork.
ChickenLadyLovesLife@lemmy.world 8 months ago
They made cheese and butter
The Nuer (a cattle-herding people from Sudan) would pour milk into gourds and add cow urine and leave it in the sun for months. I love eating food from around the world but that is one thing I would pass on. They never drank milk, but if they needed liquid calories they would poke a hole in a cow and drink some of their blood.
Eq0@literature.cafe 8 months ago
Absolutely. Mainly a problem of conservation of raw milk.
minkymunkey_7_7@lemmy.world 8 months ago
The most delicious of calories.
maxxadrenaline@lemmy.world 8 months ago
man i cant even have my mocha frap without oat milk
P1k1e@lemmy.world 8 months ago
Nero linguistics programming
exasperation@lemmy.dbzer0.com 8 months ago
Nero
The dude who fiddled as Rome burned?
prole@lemmy.blahaj.zone 8 months ago
Left brain/right brain pseudoscience
ChickenLadyLovesLife@lemmy.world 8 months ago
It goes well with “we only use 15% of our brains”. Oh, OK, let’s remove 85% of your brain and see how things go.
derry@midwest.social 8 months ago
Alpha wolf is a lie.
JasonDJ@lemmy.zip 8 months ago
Class of 2003.
Food wheel was taught in elementary school. As were the taste bud “zones” and the American Dream.
Snowpix@lemmy.ca 8 months ago
We had the Food Pyramid here in Canada, which is very similarly a lie pushed by the dairy and grain industries and not linked to any real health benefits.
Eq0@literature.cafe 8 months ago
I now refer to the […hsph.harvard.edu/healthy-eating-pyramid/](Harvard food pyramid)
Zerush@lemmy.ml 8 months ago
The reallity ist that you create a website with Google and it filled out automaticly your complete Curriculum Vitae from Birth to now.
Randomgal@lemmy.ca 8 months ago
That website is called ChatGPT lmao
Speiser0@feddit.org 8 months ago
No. It is called duckduckgo.com.
ijon_the_human@lemmy.world 8 months ago
bstix@feddit.dk 8 months ago
en.wikipedia.org/…/List_of_common_misconceptions
The history list was most interesting in my opinion.
Nikls94@lemmy.world 8 months ago
Obligatory “there’s a xkcd for anything, isn’t it?”
crapwittyname@feddit.uk 8 months ago
Five senses; taste, touch, smell, sight, hearing, acceleration, temperature, body configuration, pain, balance, time, hunger…
Overshoot2648@lemmy.today 8 months ago
You are missing CO² chemoception. Our lungs tell us if there is a lot stale air, but not if we are in a pure nitrogen environment.
Duke_Nukem_1990@feddit.org 8 months ago
And interestingly: no sense for wetness.
Alcoholicorn@mander.xyz 8 months ago
Walking/riding in a thing rain coat, the sensation of rain telling your body you’re completely soaked, while dry as a bone underneath.
absGeekNZ@lemmy.nz 8 months ago
Getting the washing off the line…time to play “is it still wet, or just cold”
crapwittyname@feddit.uk 8 months ago
Facts.
neuracnu@lemmy.blahaj.zone 8 months 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?
Overshoot2648@lemmy.today 8 months ago
Proprioception (body config) is actually feedback from the muscles.
Also they forget or were unaware of the most interesting sense: CO² chemoception. It is how our lungs tell if we need air.
exasperation@lemmy.dbzer0.com 8 months ago
In theory we can break down the sense of sight into subcomponents, too. It’s only the visual cortex that processes those raw inputs into a coherent single perception. We have two eyes but generally only perceive one image, even if the stereoscopic vision gives us a good estimate of distance, and one eye being closed or obscured or blinded fails pretty gracefully into still perceiving a single image.
We have better low light sensitivity in our color-blind rods but only have color perception from our cones, and only in the center of our visual field, but we don’t actually perceive the loss of color in those situations.
So yeah, someone putting a warm hand on my back might technically set off different nerve sensors for both temperature and touch, but we generally perceive it as a unified “touch” perception.
Similarly, manipulating vision and sound might very well throw off one’s proprioception, because it’s all integrated in how it’s perceived.
kameecoding@lemmy.world 8 months 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 8 months 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?
FiskFisk33@startrek.website 8 months ago
i’d say the somatogravic illusion being a think kind of proves you right.
crapwittyname@feddit.uk 8 months 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.
dankm@lemmy.ca 8 months ago
I was taught that Canada has 10 provinces and two territories. That was proven false before I even graduated high school!
scutiger@lemmy.world 8 months ago
Because of Nunavut, or something else?
dankm@lemmy.ca 8 months ago
Yup. Nunavut in 1999.
Jax@sh.itjust.works 8 months ago
Who would be the arbiter of truth in this instance?
Like it’s a cool idea, just practically impossible.
pinball_wizard@lemmy.zip 8 months ago
Who would be the arbiter of truth in this instance?
I generally settle for panels of scientists. Scientists aren’t prone to agreeing on things, but much of (not all, life is cool and scary) what they do agree on is a pretty safe bet.
dethedrus@lemmy.dbzer0.com 8 months ago
Or history that was not covered…
homura1650@lemmy.world 8 months ago
China is the most populace country.
the_crotch@sh.itjust.works 8 months ago
tbf when I was in school that was true
Jarix@lemmy.world 8 months ago
That is what the post is a about. Not just facts that were always wrong, but ones that no longer are true
GooseGang@beehaw.org 8 months ago
The food pyramid for sure. I’m not sure if it was taught outside the US
Eq0@literature.cafe 8 months ago
I went into a deep dive on the matter. Many countries have food pyramids, but they look potentially very different. For a laugh, look up the Italian one, with pizza and pasta at the base! I nowadays refer to the Harvard food pyramid, seems fairly legit to me.
GooseGang@beehaw.org 8 months ago
The Harvard one looks better but I think I’ll be using the Italian one from now on 😂
JcbAzPx@lemmy.world 8 months ago
This one is ongoing. It gets modified a bit whenever some industry or another pays enough, but it’s still misleading kids and educators to this day.
qaz@lemmy.world 8 months ago
Whats_your_reasoning@lemmy.world 8 months ago
There needs to be something about so-called “junk DNA” added to this.
TonyTonyChopper@mander.xyz 8 months ago
qaz@lemmy.world 8 months ago
I’m sorry, I forgot to test this on mobile after making some changes
Stovetop@lemmy.world 8 months 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.
Duamerthrax@lemmy.world 8 months 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.
ubergeek@lemmy.today 8 months ago
Fairly, land is always a good investment. Taking out predatory loans to buy land isnt.
JcbAzPx@lemmy.world 8 months ago
The rebuilding thing was a plan specific to WWII. They wanted to avoid the issues that the end of WWI brought to keep another war from happening a couple decades down the line.
Duamerthrax@lemmy.world 8 months ago
The US also wanted an ally in the area who was into capitalism. Similar to how SK got a lot of support in building their infrastructure, but they went even farther into capitalism. Both countries are really depressed now.
He was trying to rationalize why Bush II’s wars were going to be bad for them. In both cases, completely ignoring the huge loss of life that incurred.
neuracnu@lemmy.blahaj.zone 8 months 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…
JcbAzPx@lemmy.world 8 months 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.
JargonWagon@lemmy.world 8 months 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.
PraiseTheSoup@midwest.social 8 months 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!
ChickenLadyLovesLife@lemmy.world 8 months ago
PC game “Lemmings”
Best game of all time IMHO. “I’ll just try one more level” followed by the sunrise.
Landless2029@lemmy.world 8 months ago
FiskFisk33@startrek.website 8 months 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.
Agent641@lemmy.world 8 months ago
They are skilled with bricklaying and mining tools too ⛏️
HugeNerd@lemmy.ca 8 months ago
Let’s go! Door creaks
kameecoding@lemmy.world 8 months ago
What about the BBc documentary with the spaghetti trees?
Jhuskindle@lemmy.world 8 months ago
Ill never accept that Pluto is not a planet! JUSTICE FOR PLUTO
echodot@feddit.uk 8 months 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.
deaf_fish@midwest.social 8 months ago
Your work improves the lives of others more than it will improve your own. Which others is determined by politics. Best to spread the improvement around so you can get more of it back from more people.
Soapbox@lemmy.zip 8 months 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.
grasshopper_mouse@lemmy.world 8 months ago
Wash your chicken before cooking. Don’t do this, it just spreads salmonella all over your sink.
the_q@lemmy.zip 8 months ago
Bears sleep for their entire hibernation and recycle their waste.
logicbomb@lemmy.world 8 months 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.
shplane@lemmy.world 8 months ago
The US south treated their slaves well. Even in high school, I was like “mmmm you suuuure about that?”
moseschrute@lemmy.ml 8 months ago
And the website looks like it’s from the year you input
FlashMobOfOne@lemmy.world 8 months 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.
QuoVadisHomines@sh.itjust.works 8 months 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 8 months 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 🤣
ChickenLadyLovesLife@lemmy.world 8 months ago
The most common belief was that it fell because Ronald Reagan ordered Gorbachev to “tear down that wall”.
QuoVadisHomines@sh.itjust.works 8 months ago
I graduated when people accepted Gaidar’s propositions whole cloth and now we blame Gorbachev a lot more than we did in 2000