Thoughts on questions every high school student should be able to answer
The Star Tribune wrote a fluff piece asking scientists to come up with their (seemingly) most disappointing question that every high schooler should be able to answer. (via Kottke)
http://www.startribune.com/389/story/369290.html
MJD (hey, man – what happened to Advocacy?) rightly savages the list:
http://www.plover.com/blog/physics/questions.html
The analysis is mostly very strong. My only complaint is that he failed to note that evolution doesn’t actually “choose” anything, and saying that it does is just typical “owning the terminology” ID doublespeak.
And what is up with that last paragraph in the article about family life interfering with remembering things you learned in high school?
My choice for this question would probably have been “What is the scientific method?”.
Tags: science, high school, questions, star tribune, mjd, dominus, plover, kottke
