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> Most of us have an intuitive notion of NM already. I remember having the notion that if I threw a rock, it accelerated for a time after leaving my hand, befor
by gumby 3y ago
> Most of us have an intuitive notion of NM already. I remember having the notion that if I threw a rock, it accelerated for a time after leaving my hand, before decelerating. I was disabused of that in physics class.
And it took a long time for people to figure that out (or how you see, or tons of other "intuitive" concepts). IMHO, if you had to chose only door one or door two, it would be better for students to leave school with an understanding of what the scientific process is (not even baconian scientific method) rather than the idea that science has some sort of weird epistemology of "facts" and "non-facts". The worst and loudest Gradgrinds of STEM education policy clearly have no idea of this.
- WalterBright 3y agoThe people who just learn facts with no understanding don't do well on tests, either. That's kinda the point of the tests. I've seen this in action plenty. The idea that tests can't test "real" knowledge is simply wrong. P.S. at Caltech, the science & engineering examinations were all open-book open-note. No need to memorize anything. But you were doomed if you didn't understand the material. Even for a multiple guess test, the wrong answers are ones one would arrive at if one suffered from the usual misconceptions about how the problem should be solved. The wrong guesses are not random. The people who compose the tests aren't fools.