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 2 months ago
What a strange and dumb question.
Or, you know, not real.
firebarrage@lemmy.world 2 months ago
Irelephant@lemm.ee 2 months ago
Nothing ever happens.
zarkanian@sh.itjust.works 2 months 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 2 months ago
It feels like an entirely different life to me.
BallsandBayonets@lemmings.world 2 months ago
2019 feels like a different lifetime to me.
StupidBrotherInLaw@lemmy.world 2 months 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 2 months 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.