The short version is that all 25 kids/sheep/igmos in this study totally fell for a fake website that advocated saving the endangered tree octopus from almost certain extinction. Not only that, some of these potato heads wouldn't believe the instructors when they told the shit-for-brains that it was a hoax.
So, strap on your helmets and grab your guns folks. Looks like it's going to be fun on the deck of this sinking ship after all.
Rule Number One: People are Stupid.
ReplyDeletePerhaps they should say that the Pacific Northwest tree octopus lives in the Pacific Northwest of Mars....
ReplyDeleteSeriously, though, cutting through all the education gobbledygook & the researchers' desire to get permanent funding, the big picture is that most public school teachers cannot teach essential basic skills (like critical thinking)worth a shite. I wonder how large a grant one could get to study that??
ReplyDeleteNo offense to present company, but I'm betting that most teachers would be all for saving the Northwest Pacific tree octopus. So study how the bastards aren't learning how to detect BS all day long and twice on Sunday. If my high school and jr. high were typical, critical thinking isn't exactly omnipresent in our public school system's teachers/babysitters either. And if you want critical thinking taught in school, hell that's easy: put it in the graduation exam. Then watch teachers retire early.
ReplyDeleteWhat we all should do is support this research, wait for their studies to give a detailed schematic of how kids these days aren't thinking, then exploit the results legally for our own sinister capitalistic purposes (namely rich food, booze, DVDs, and hookers).