• StupidBrotherInLaw@lemmy.world
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    18 days ago

    This is a perfectly acceptable question in a science course. Just because you don’t have the experience, knowledge, or, barring those two, even just the imagination to understand how a question might apply doesn’t make it strange or dumb. It just shows that you’re…maybe not dumb, but certainly ignorant.

    • Dragon "Rider"(drag)@lemmy.nz
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      18 days ago

      Exactly. Citing a psychology paper from 1912 is risky business. Young people don’t know precisely when each particular science caught up to the current paradigm.