mattnewport comments on Open Thread: May 2010 - Less Wrong

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Comment author: mattnewport 01 May 2010 10:14:33PM 2 points [-]

In school I had physics as one of the depend subjects. I don't think I saw any actual science training anywhere in my education. But that might be due to my own ignorance.

Unfortunately this is not something that is generally taught well in high school science classes even though it would be of much more practical use to most students than what they are actually being taught. It is conveyed better in university science courses that have a strong experimental component and in engineering courses.

Comment author: MartinB 01 May 2010 10:35:41PM 2 points [-]

It might not be too surprising that i totally agree.

It CS we dont do that much experimentation. And i have some beef with the lack of teaching good ways to actually make software. I dont think the word 'Version control' was ever uttered somewhere.