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40 Percent of American Children Think Hot Dogs Are Vegetables
- type_Ben_struct 4y agoLink to the research: https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0272494421001584 https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S027249442... On a more positive note, at least 100% of the children correctly identified that you can’t eat sand.
- Aeolun 4y agoWhat nonsense. You can eat sand just fine. It’s just not very tasty and has zero nutritional value. I imagine the lethal dose is also fairly low, but meh, everything is lethal in a large enough quantity.
- lol768 4y ago> On a more positive note, at least 100% of the children correctly identified that you can’t eat sand. Does the study actually say this? As far as I can tell, it says that 1.14% of participants incorrectly suggested that both sand and dirt were edible (in the "Edibility Sorting Task" results)
- dotcoma 4y agoI’m also worried about those who think that french fries are vegetables…
- dorkwood 4y agoI don't understand. Aren't potatoes vegetables?
- credit_guy 4y agoI may be killing GP's joke, but here it goes. Potatoes are part of the regnum vegetabile, also known as vegetable. But in the context of food, at least in the US, vegetables are understood to be things like broccoli, bell peppers, zucchini, asparagus, celery root, parsnips. Potatoes are not considered vegetables. Of course, you don't want to get into the whole controversy about tomatoes being vegetable or fruit. Some people even take this controversy further, to say bell peppers are actually fruit, and not vegetables.
- JoeAltmaier 4y agoWell, potatoes are neither animal nor mineral. So there's that.
- _8j50 4y agoHmm veggie franks are ok. In a way, meat franks are bio-processed animal feed.
- radford-neal 4y agoThis trips my implausibility detector. Aside from the results themselves, one red flag is that they describe the subjects only as "living in a metropolitan area located in the southeastern region of the United States". What possible legitimate reason could there be for not identifying the specific metropolitan area where the subjects lived?
- Isamu 4y agoMy friend relies on his implausibility detector quite a lot. He never takes care to calibrate it though. It’s leading to a rift in our friendship.
- bell-cot 4y agoNoteworthy - "Children" in the study were 4 to 7 years old. [Edit - and living in a metropolitan area.] If asked, most of them probably didn't know where tap water comes from, nor electricity for their home, nor ... Vaguely related: at least one die-hard vegan mom I know was committed to regularly feeding her kids meat until well into their teens - because being notably shorter (caused by not getting animal protein as a kid, at least in her mind) and eating different would be two big, painful strikes against her kids, in the often-cruel milieu of other children.
- squarefoot 4y ago> If asked, most of them probably didn't know where tap water comes from Why I can't but think of this doc.. er ...movie scene?? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kIZ9YuPm_Ls https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kIZ9YuPm_Ls
- datavirtue 4y agoIt's a thing with highschool kids as well. We have some inside family jokes from going to the grocery store and having a young kid scan our groceries (checkout). The weird looks and the drama that ensues when they don't know what cauliflower is ("white broccoli"). You throw kolrabi or dragon fruit at them and they curl up in a fetal position. Basically all produce would have them flipping through picture manuals or calling the manager or having us explain to them what it was so they could search.
- lupire 4y ago
- iinnPP 4y agoNot all vegans are vegans for the animals. Nothing insane about that.
- goodpoint 4y ago> 4 to 7 years old ... most of them probably didn't know where tap water comes from, nor electricity for their home That's still very bad.
- dudul 4y ago176 children between the age of 4 and 7. So I guess some of them also believe in fairies, think that the light in the fridge is controlled by a tiny man living in the door and don't know how electricity gets to the house. This is stupid.
- pipeline_peak 4y agoCool tabloid
- trynewideas 4y agoI would legitimately enjoy finding out what 40 percent of 4-7 year olds think about everything, actually. They're stupid and don't care.
- JoeAltmaier 4y agoSome hot dogs are made of vegetables. Did they control for that?
- mikotodomo 4y ago
- bombcar 4y agoYou can ask a four year old if a hotdog is a vegetable and get a yes or no if you want, just in how you ask. Kids often want to please.