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How are you going to know what science is if you don't even understand the most basic of scientific facts? The only way someone goes around not knowing the answ

by Retra 10y ago

How are you going to know what science is if you don't even understand the most basic of scientific facts? The only way someone goes around not knowing the answer to that question is if they've never even seriously discussed science in an educational manner. >What people really lack is the understanding what science is. Why this method of exploring the world works better than the others. Only after that they can understand why it is worth to pay attention to it. Absolutely not. You don't have to know how money works to know it is worth having. You don't have to know how language works to know that you have to speak. And you can certainly understand the value of science without having any knowledge of how to personally do it. You just need some respect for those that do. And I would bet that most people who care enough about the scientific method already understood that it is valuable before they ever bothered to study it. You can't ask for this to be done the other way around. Nobody is going to develop scientific literacy so that you can later show them that it is valuable.

jackvalentine 10y ago
> How are you going to know what science is if you don't even understand the most basic of scientific facts? The only way someone goes around not knowing the answer to that question is if they've never even seriously discussed science in an educational manner. I don't know the answer to that question but I understand the scientific method. Memorizing facts about natural phenomena has nothing to do with understanding the concept of science.
jgamman 10y ago
it's certainly less mass-ive by a factor of a 1000 or so but then it's smeared across a volume, because quantum physics. in some sense, the concept of an atom and the electron 'space' are interchangeable if you think of those cute STM images of atoms spelling out words. this is one of those funny questions that go through a local maximum somewhere between ignorance and grad school. it's obvious right up until someone points out it's all really @#$@#$@ confusing.

by Retra 10y ago

jackvalentine 10y ago

> How are you going to know what science is if you don't even understand the most basic of scientific facts? The only way someone goes around not knowing the answer to that question is if they've never even seriously discussed science in an educational manner. I don't know the answer to that question but I understand the scientific method. Memorizing facts about natural phenomena has nothing to do with understanding the concept of science.

jgamman 10y ago

it's certainly less mass-ive by a factor of a 1000 or so but then it's smeared across a volume, because quantum physics. in some sense, the concept of an atom and the electron 'space' are interchangeable if you think of those cute STM images of atoms spelling out words. this is one of those funny questions that go through a local maximum somewhere between ignorance and grad school. it's obvious right up until someone points out it's all really @#$@#$@ confusing.