A website that tells you, based on the year you graduated high school, what your school (probably) got wrong!
A website that tells you, based on the year you graduated high school, what your school (probably) got wrong!
cross-posted from: https://lemmy.world/post/6186067
While the idea is great, this web page is pretty low effort. Check the facts for 1950 - they are the same as for the 90's.
41 0 ReplyIt's also weak on the sources. Like, a Vox article, really?
19 0 ReplyVox is kind of like Wikipedia in the sense that you need to follow-up on their sources.
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Yeah, you pick the 1940's and gives the human genome one. I'm no expert, but I'm pretty sure they weren't teaching that in high school considering wasn't even a word until 1920
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Only if you went to school in the USA.
22 0 ReplySeveral of the items hit the nail for me (German), too.
17 0 ReplyMay depend on the decade. Form mine it was little but pop science stuff.
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Good lord that's a short list I would have thought there would be way more stuff on it...
14 0 ReplyIt is never too* late to learn and correct what we hold for true. I like the idea behind this website. Thanks for sharing.
*EDIT: learned & corrected to to too.
9 0 Reply*too
4 0 ReplyLooks like the difference between to, too, and two is something we need to add to the list for whenever you went to high school!
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Probably better off just reading https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_common_misconceptions More concise
8 0 Replyfood pyramid was created in 1992??? Am I having a mendela effect because I remember it way earlier than that?
4 0 ReplyI guess I was well-read as a teenager, because my era was the 1990s and I didn't buy into any of those myths.
4 0 ReplyI’m similar apparently, or at least liked learning. 2000s.
I was pretty unimpressed with the list, I never believed some of them (like the genome) and learned most of them were wrong by high school.
4 0 ReplyI kind of feel like I wasn't even all that well-informed to be honest. I wasn't some super-genius teen. I just didn't buy any of that shit, especially about Columbus.
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