Cognitive behavioral therapy
The ignorance happening over in the transgender thread absolutely astounds me.
Don’t listen to Foxy40. You were right the first time.
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This makes me think of a quiz I had in Japanese class in high school. We were meant to spell ‘Los Angeles’. Just about everyone in the class spelled it in katakana as “Rosu Anjorusu”, but the correct answer? “Rosanzarusu”.
I can’t believe how tiring that thread is. It seems more like a contest to show who’s the most politically correct. It also seems like not ignorance, but a constant re-jiggering of the world’s social gender nomenclature so that people who aren’t ‘us’ can forever be judged.
Back on topic: some people don’t know how many moons the earth has.
Or in the UK, Compulsory Basic Training- the minimum training before being allowed to ride a motorcycle on UK roads. I always like mixing up them two. Might start throwing in your definition as well…
I could sort of, kind of understand the confusion on pee/babies. But poop? Seriously? What, did this person believe there was a cloaca?
A man stumbles across an old lamp while he was at his attorney’s office. Figuring his luck has to change, he rubs the lamp and nothing happens.
I’m often shocked by people who don’t know what threads they’re posting in.
I assume you were looking for this thread.
… which, hilariously, when you’re planning a wedding is often an abbreviation for Save the Dates. It seems that representatives of the Wedding Industrial Complex have become desensitized to the hilarity and use that one unironically all the time. “Did you mail your STDs yet?” “Did you get an STD from us?” “Your STDs are so cute!”
I’m just going to this one as an attendee, not a presenter. They specifically forbid cameras and recording devices so I can’t record anything. Often, when conferences don’t allow recording it means that they are doing their own recording. Perhaps they’ll sell copies. I don’t know.
Here’s the conference at a glance. I’m really looking forward to some of these sessions.
Actually, it’s debatable. What do you think the correct answer is?
If there’s another moon than Luna, somebody better notify the astronomers’ society…
One.
3753 Cruithne is not a moon. 2010 TK[sub]7[/sub] and other Trojans? Not moons.
What else you got?
Here are some fun ones from high school students (bless their souls):
-A cherry pit is a hole in the ground where cherry trees are planted.
-Cherries don’t have seeds inside them!
-Water catches on fire/bursts into flames when it reaches 100 degrees Celsius
-North is literally up above you (when asked to point toward north with their eyes closed, a handful of students or more will point up at the ceiling)
-Light comes out of your eyes and illuminates things, that’s how you see them.
Some others I’ve encountered from various friends.
-Benjamin Franklin was the greatest president we ever had.
-Helium doesn’t have any protons (to be honest, this was a ‘misspeak’ and not a sincere belief, but it was from a loathsome chemistry professor so I’m including it to embarrass him)
My friend once argued insistently that the word “locked” and the word “shut” meant exactly the same thing. He clarified by saying “The door is locked. The door is shut. It’s the same thing.”
My friend also argued that the sun was the largest star in the universe because it was the biggest in the sky (to be fair we were in 4th grade at the time, but come on). Or maybe it was me who believed that.
And West is always to your left, no matter which way you are facing. :smack:
I teach the right-hand-rules for magnetic fields and forces to high school students, and it’s usually the first time they’ve ever had to really think about things in 3-dimensional space and be able to visualize it themselves. Most of them really struggle with it, even with the RHR visual aid.
A lot of them think that the Earth’s gravity is a result of its rotation, and that if it weren’t spinning we’d all float away.
I’ve even had students who thought that if you sucked all the air out of a room, there would be no gravity in the room and everything would float around. I wish I were kidding.
That was a popular theory at one time.
I blame David Gates.
If the world should stop revolving, spinning slowly down to die
I’d spend the end with you, and when the world was through
Then one by one the stars would all go out
Then you and I would simply fly away
According to that article, up to 50% of college students still believe in that theory.
Honestly, that is shocking. How they eye works is covered several times throughout school, from grade school on up.