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[–] [email protected] 8 points 4 weeks ago (4 children)

What a strange and dumb question.

Or, you know, not real.

[–] [email protected] 32 points 4 weeks ago* (last edited 4 weeks ago) (1 children)

This is a perfectly acceptable question in a science course. Just because you don't have the experience, knowledge, or, barring those two, even just the imagination to understand how a question might apply doesn't make it strange or dumb. It does speak volumes about you, though.

[–] [email protected] 12 points 4 weeks ago

Exactly. Citing a psychology paper from 1912 is risky business. Young people don't know precisely when each particular science caught up to the current paradigm.

[–] [email protected] 27 points 4 weeks ago

Is it though? I definitely had teachers in middle/high school with oddball requirements like "only physical books more than 10 years old are valid sources". Total nonsense but it does happen. College is a place where you are meant to have these bad assumptions challenged and corrected. Presumably after a response they'll be better for it.

[–] [email protected] 15 points 4 weeks ago

Nothing ever happens.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 4 weeks ago (1 children)

Nononono, that was 30 years ago. Can you believe it? Don't you feel old?

(It actually feels like 60 years ago to me, but I'm weird.)

[–] [email protected] 1 points 4 weeks ago (1 children)

It feels like an entirely different life to me.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 4 weeks ago

2019 feels like a different lifetime to me.