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Comment author: [deleted] 21 July 2015 08:29:54AM 0 points [-]

What's most damning is that our scientific curriculum in schools don't teach a lot of scientific thinking.

There is an IQ prerequisite for that which most students are unable to fulfill.

The lower-IQ version of scientific thinking are the good-oldie, common-sense proverbs and maxims like "measure twice, cut once". They have a problem of being kinda boring and "uncool".

Kipling's poem The Gods of Copybook Headings is a good example what a low-IQ version of scientific thinking could be. I think it was abandoned because it was "uncool" and "boring".