2y ago

A website that tells you, based on the year you graduated high school, what your school (probably) got wrong!

yourschoolgotwrong.com

School Got Wrong

cross-posted from: https://lemmy.world/post/6186067

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2y ago

I made a website that tells you, based on the year you graduated high school, what your school (probably) got wrong!

yourschoolgotwrong.com

17 comments

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.
- It's also weak on the sources. Like, a Vox article, really?
  
  Vox is kind of like Wikipedia in the sense that you need to follow-up on their sources.
- Yeah, 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
Only if you went to school in the USA.
- Several of the items hit the nail for me (German), too.
  
  May depend on the decade. Form mine it was little but pop science stuff.
Good lord that's a short list I would have thought there would be way more stuff on it...
It 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.
- *too
- Looks like the difference between to, too, and two is something we need to add to the list for whenever you went to high school!
Probably better off just reading https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_common_misconceptions More concise
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.
- I’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.
  
  I 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.
food pyramid was created in 1992??? Am I having a mendela effect because I remember it way earlier than that?

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