pnrjulius comments on Two More Things to Unlearn from School - Less Wrong

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Comment author: pnrjulius 09 April 2012 06:18:13AM 1 point [-]

Also, sometimes teachers try to teach that way and fail miserably.

Like my genetics class: I did the experiments as well as I could and got a result different than what the teacher expected. This was marked as "wrong". Yet... was it actually wrong? Perhaps I did the experiments wrong, I'm not sure. But if so, that should have been pointed out. I actually think the fruit flies just didn't behave as neat little models but instead as complicated messy lifeforms, and as a result I got the "wrong" answer by being too close to reality.