h a l f b a k e r yQuis custodiet the custard?
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Because you figured out that everything taught in this
lesson
was wrong and you can actually engage in critical
thinking.
The subject isn't important, the point is plausible "facts"
are
taught about a certain subject that are completely
wrong.
Enough information is given for the critical
thinker to
figure
this out and get an A by checking the correct answers
that were
taught to be wrong answers in the lesson body.
Let the little goody good, monkey see, monkey do,
teachers
pets get an F for once. Now go into the world with a clue
that everything you're told by the "experts" might not be
right.
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It has been known for very high marks to be scored* by writing "This question is unanswerable, as it is badly thought out, poorly phrased, and lacks essential information" and then proceeding to re-write the test in a more meaningful way, then supplying the correct, partially correct, disputable, ambiguous and incorrect answers. |
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*Leading to an offer of employment. |
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Who'd've thought it was so tough to get into McDonald's these
days? |
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Maybe just a creative writing assignment where you
get to expound on an idea that is presented
incorrectly? |
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Nothing like the 1/2B, then ... oh, wait ... |
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// tough to get into McDonald's // |
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They've raised their standards after they hired you. |
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*Yay [8th of 7] you told it like it is on *scored. |
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So if you know the whole thing is hogwash and deliberately give answers with which you disagree you're no better than those who believe it? |
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The tricky part is this would have to be some subject that
nobody knows about but through deductive reasoning
you'd figure that, with the data given, the conclusions are
all wrong. |
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This would require some creativity to make it plausible.
One idea would be to carefully review the controversial
studies on lipidology
over the years as the template to get something that
sounds plausible that's dead wrong. Or many aspects of
diet for that matter. That's a subject where
misinformation is still widely disseminated in various
"bombshell, breakthrough studies" from time to time,
often funded by the industries selling the crappy food
being lauded as getting a bad break. |
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Without getting into a discussion about proper human
diet, and although I might have mentioned this before, I'll
bypass all that and just give you the 3 second
lesson on how to figure out what any given animal or
organism should eat. |
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1- What did it evolve to eat? |
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So if you want to learn, for instance, what a dolphin
should
eat, say you applied for a job at the aquarium by lying
and saying
"Yes" on the part that said: "Have ever you taken any
college courses on the diet, biochemistry, metabolism and
digestive tract of cetaceans?" and they hired you. Now
you have to figure out what to feed the dolphins and
somebody
tells you to feed them Twinkies and donuts because those
have the 8 essential vitamins and iron that a dolphin body
craves. They may well be right, but you would need to do
some serious studies about dolphin physiology and the
chemistry involved or... you could just use
the quick and easy diet analysis plan outlined above. |
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Dolphins evolved eating fish, and although Twinkies may
in fact be superior for the dolphin who wants to really
stand out for the lady dolphins, there will have to be
some proof that they're better than fish which dolphins
evolved to eat. Now don't get me wrong, science can
absolutely come up
with some kind of dolphin super-food, but exceptional
claims will require exceptional proof. |
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Anyway, got off track there but point is, you could come
up with something that isn't blatantly obvious but that
wouldn't get by the savvy critical thinker. |
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By the way, I appreciate that nobody pointed out
that all tests are determined by how many problems
you get wrong and it was understood what I meant.
Thank you for that. |
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A better wording might be "Test where "wrong"
answers are actually correct." |
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//Your Grade Is Determined By How Many Problems You Get
Wrong// This exists already, and is the basis for the
management structure of the UK Civil Service. |
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//1- What did it evolve to eat? |
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The problem is that you also have to ask "how long did it
evolve to live for?" and, in the case of humans, that's basically
about 40-50 years. Bye, [doc]. |
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