cross-posted from: https://lemmy.world/post/6186067
A website that tells you, based on the year you graduated high school, what your school (probably) got wrong!
https://yourschoolgotwrong.com/
https://yourschoolgotwrong.com/
cross-posted from: https://lemmy.world/post/6186067
17 Comments
LyingCake@feddit.de · 39 pts · 2y
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.
GCostanzaStepOnMe@feddit.de · 18 pts · 2y
It's also weak on the sources. Like, a Vox article, really?
i_ben_fine@lemmy.one · 2 pts · 2y
Vox is kind of like Wikipedia in the sense that you need to follow-up on their sources.
I_Has_A_Hat@startrek.website · 12 pts · 2y
mrbubblesort@kbin.social · 9 pts · 2y
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
Pons_Aelius@kbin.social · 19 pts · 2y
Only if you went to school in the USA.
marv99@feddit.de · 17 pts · 2y
Several of the items hit the nail for me (German), too.
Pons_Aelius@kbin.social · 6 pts · 2y
May depend on the decade. Form mine it was little but pop science stuff.
NightLily@lemmy.basedcount.com · 13 pts · 2y
Good lord that's a short list I would have thought there would be way more stuff on it...
TeamDman@lemmy.world · 9 pts · 2y
Probably better off just reading https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_common_misconceptions More concise
marv99@feddit.de · 9 pts · 2y
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.
Jakdracula@lemmy.world · 4 pts · 2y
*too
grilledcheesecowboy@kbin.social · 3 pts · 2y
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!
HubertManne@kbin.social · 4 pts · 2y
food pyramid was created in 1992??? Am I having a mendela effect because I remember it way earlier than that?
FlyingSquid@lemmy.world · 4 pts · 2y
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.
oddspinnaker@lemm.ee · 4 pts · 2y
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.
FlyingSquid@lemmy.world · 3 pts · 2y
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.
LetKCater2U@sh.itjust.works · 1 pts · 2y