A website that tells you, based on the year you graduated high school, what your school (probably) got wrong!
A website that tells you, based on the year you graduated high school, what your school (probably) got wrong!
cross-posted from: https://lemmy.world/post/6186067
While the idea is great, this web page is pretty low effort. Check the facts for 1950 - they are the same as for the 90's.
36ReplyIt's also weak on the sources. Like, a Vox article, really?
14ReplyVox is kind of like Wikipedia in the sense that you need to follow-up on their sources.
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How to build an entire website after reading an article titled "Top 15 things taught wrong in schools"
13ReplyYeah, you pick the 1940's and gives the human genome one. I'm no expert, but I'm pretty sure they weren't teaching that in high school considering wasn't even a word until 1920
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Good lord that's a short list I would have thought there would be way more stuff on it...
13ReplyProbably better off just reading https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_common_misconceptions More concise
8ReplyIt is never too* late to learn and correct what we hold for true. I like the idea behind this website. Thanks for sharing.
*EDIT: learned & corrected to to too.
7Reply*too
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I guess I was well-read as a teenager, because my era was the 1990s and I didn't buy into any of those myths.
4ReplyI’m similar apparently, or at least liked learning. 2000s.
I was pretty unimpressed with the list, I never believed some of them (like the genome) and learned most of them were wrong by high school.
4ReplyI kind of feel like I wasn't even all that well-informed to be honest. I wasn't some super-genius teen. I just didn't buy any of that shit, especially about Columbus.
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1ReplyOnly if you went to school in the USA.
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