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.
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jaggedrobotpubes@lemmy.world 23 hours ago
What a strange and dumb question.
Or, you know, not real.
firebarrage@lemmy.world 23 hours ago
Irelephant@lemm.ee 21 hours ago
Nothing ever happens.
zarkanian@sh.itjust.works 22 hours ago
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.)
Maggoty@lemmy.world 21 hours ago
It feels like an entirely different life to me.
BallsandBayonets@lemmings.world 20 hours ago
2019 feels like a different lifetime to me.
StupidBrotherInLaw@lemmy.world 20 hours ago
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 just shows that you’re…maybe not dumb, but certainly ignorant.
dragonfucker@lemmy.nz 20 hours 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.