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How do you know you have re-learned all of the stuff that you were taught wrong and not just a portion of it?
by GotAnyMegadeth 13y ago
How do you know you have re-learned all of the stuff that you were taught wrong and not just a portion of it?
- sophacles 13y agoThe answer is the same as if you were taught strictly the correct stuff: Constantly learn more. Re-evaluate your knowledge in the light of new facts. Find the places where pieces don't fit and investigate further. This is the only sane and rational policy on knowledge one can have for them-self. Heck even when teaching someone "correct" things, it is impossible to avoid this. There have to be abstractions and almost-but-not-quite generalizations. There is so much knowledge in the world that you have to build a general foundation to bootstrap better understanding. People are pattern machines, so patterns need to be presented, for easier consumption, then revised later.
- bdfh42 13y agoI don't - but I do question most things. Like in every other activity - you get a feel for things that seem untrue (and yes I recognise the potential for vast error there) and put them to one side for further thought - or just forget about them of course. It helps that I am a developer - analytical and algorithmic thinking is a great start point. Learning some statistics helps - you can see through a lot of nonsense if you can get at the source data.