To: Dimensio
How do we enhance student learning by lying to them? We could make a game of it. Call it "Spot the Bullsh*t," a game in which students evaluate different presenters on scientific validity of presentation.
The first thoughts on a cheat sheet for such a test:
- If he's telling you you'll go to hell for disbelieving, it isn't science.
- If he's appealing to the world-wide conspiracy to suppress the truth, it isn't science.
- If the evidence is just sort of everywhere around you but not in any specific series of studies or experiments, it isn't science.
- If it's a drive-by shooting of one unsupported statement after another after another, it probably isn't science. (Or, if it is, it's too poorly presented to tell.)
- If the presenter can't seem to understand your questions or objections, that's a bad sign.
- If the presentation is "all arithmetic and no model," that's a bad sign.
459 posted on
12/04/2005 6:47:26 AM PST by
VadeRetro
(Liberalism is a cancer on society. Creationism is a cancer on conservatism.)
To: VadeRetro
If it's simultaneously completely compatable and also totally at odds with existing well-established science, then it isn't science.
593 posted on
12/04/2005 12:50:55 PM PST by
Dimensio
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