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A while back, someone had the idea of posing that question to Harvard graduates at their graduation - and also some professors - and got a bunch of wrong answer
by mannykannot 6y ago
A while back, someone had the idea of posing that question to Harvard graduates at their graduation - and also some professors - and got a bunch of wrong answers, for the most part confidently expressed. There used to be a video of it readily available, but someone seems to have used copyright put a lid on it.
Then again, not knowing the cause has almost no practical consequences for most people. I doubt that knowing the answer would make them less susceptible to most false claims about climate change, for example.
- jeffrallen 6y agoIt is MIT, and about electric circuits: https://youtu.be/aIhk9eKOLzQ https://youtu.be/aIhk9eKOLzQ
- ColinWright 6y agoOr about where the mass in a tree comes from: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JhCHb6xtqeY https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JhCHb6xtqeY
- dade_ 6y agoWhen I was 6 or 7 we had these electric yo-yos that lit up when spinning. One of them wouldn’t work, and my friends mom was trying to test the lightbulb with two AA batteries stacked on top each other and the light bulb on positive saying the light was burnt out. I remember being frustrated trying to explain to her that the light could never work this way. Of course she knew better, and explained that a wire to the negative lead wasn’t needed because she was using 2 batteries. She was so confident.
- mannykannot 6y agoThat is a different one in the same vein (possibly the revenge of the humanities?) Evidence of the seasons question can be found in many places, such as here: http://dianetfalcon.weebly.com/knowing--learning/harvard-graduates-explain-the-seasons http://dianetfalcon.weebly.com/knowing--learning/harvard-gra... I had forgotten that it also had a 'phases of the moon' question.