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>educational like stuff from Veritasium People call his videos educational, but really, what is the actual education being imparted? Its superficial, and you w
by pompino 2y ago
>educational like stuff from Veritasium
People call his videos educational, but really, what is the actual education being imparted? Its superficial, and you will never know how rich the topic actually is, and what the nuances are who the critics are and what they say, etc, etc. I'd put those videos in the entertainment section.
(FWIW I watch those videos too)
- supriyo-biswas 2y agoThe recent video about jumping spiders was pretty educational, for example; although I do agree that the informational content has reduced since he started heavily leaning on documentary style videos (the one about dropping pennies from a helicopter being one of the worse ones.)
- pompino 2y agoI think he is good at building a narrative, but I guess I have a different view of what constitutes educational content. Nothing against the guy, I'm glad hes making the videos. Though I wish he would drop his scammy sponsor - betterhelp.
- llm_trw 2y agoHe is edutainment. Stricktly better than reality TV but don't expect it to be as good as real education.
- red-iron-pine 2y agoedutainment is a fair criticism, but it's also a gateway drug. NileRed got me into more detailed chemistry topics, for example.