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I remember my teachers in high school making such a big deal about the scientific method on how important it was, how experiments must be reproducible to be use
by toss1941 10y ago
I remember my teachers in high school making such a big deal about the scientific method on how important it was, how experiments must be reproducible to be useful, but today you barely hear it mentioned one way or another.
- SilasX 10y agoWait, you're telling me that schools teach comforting lies about society that don't match how the real world actually works?
- dTal 10y agoIt's no more a "comforting lie" than your driving instructor telling you to check your blind spot. Not everyone does it, and bad things happen as a result, but all the more important to teach it. I'm actually surprised to hear of high school teaching good scientific practice. I don't remember ever being taught that. Widely may it spread.
- SilasX 10y agoHold on -- there's a category confusion here: "check your blindspots" isn't a comforting lie; it's a command. Converting it to "checking your blindspots will avoid collisions with careless drivers" would make it no longer a lie.
- dTal 10y agoI was pointing out the category confusion. Science teachers don't purport to tell you what scientists actually do (history or sociology teachers might, I suppose, but they don't usually "make such a big deal" out of the scientific method). They purport to teach science. As you say - it's not a comforting lie, it's a command.