Benito comments on Procedural Knowledge Gaps, part 2 - Less Wrong

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Comment author: Benito 08 December 2012 10:09:38PM 5 points [-]

Are there sites devoted to this? I think there should to be, especially for basic things required in modern society. I think aspects of personal hygiene aren't discussed very openly when people grow up. Things like 'clean yourself daily' are too vague. How? I think I'm fairly clean, but I haven't asked people their procedures for showering and using the toilet. I've seen a few things about washing hands, which weren't bad, but they were about hands. People don't like talking about other bits of the body much. I never got this lesson at school: http://paddyk.wordpress.com/2006/09/19/how-to-use-a-toilet/.

So, I googled for that, but it should be a necessary requirement in education, or something. Embarrassing things need to be talked about more to make them less awkward.

Of course, other ones discussed in the previous post are great too. I'm just pointing out that there's REALLY basic stuff that nobody talks about. Anyone know a site for that?

Comment author: MileyCyrus 08 December 2012 10:48:06PM 4 points [-]

Wikihow and Ehow are supposed to do this, but the articles are poor quality.

Comment author: [deleted] 08 December 2012 11:16:12PM 2 points [-]

There's LifeProTips on Reddit, but content there is extremely noisy and unorganized.

Comment author: RomeoStevens 08 December 2012 10:33:08PM 2 points [-]

Running such a site would clearly be low status. Which means you have little competition.

Much of this data probably exists in scattered form on various travel websites. Collecting it would be useful.