In an atom, the electrons orbit around the nucleus in the same manner as the planets orbit around the sun.
That’s been debunked for many many decades but middle scool still teaches this model. At least I wasn’t told back then how misleading and wrong that is, only in high school right before graduating the physics teacher emphasized this misconception. I remember how mad she was about it lol. I have no clue how its taught elsewhere.
Unironically, that sounds like a great task for AI.
Oh I’ve got a good one. Learned in the American south. Supposedly the American Civil War was not fought over slavery, but differing railroad track widths. Slavery was a minor detail that was a scape goat for the north to force the south to use its standard railroad width.
When I was in school, we were taught that vaccines work. /s
“Yeah, but they ain’t disproved my beleif in the flat earth” (sarcasm because crappy day in work)
‘‘You won’t have a calculator in your pocket all the time!’’
Sure, some are still taught. Like you can catch a cold from being in the cold.
When I graduated highschool, the idea that some dinosaurs had feathers and evolved into birds was still “fringe science”.
In my moc-GCSE year(s), my science teacher was so confident that blood was blue in the veins, I called her out on it but she was so adamant about it.
School experiences are too varied for such a site to exist. Examples:
Climate change was universally agreed upon to exist and be caused by people 30 years ago. For some reason it no longer appears to be.
Leif Erikson was taught to us back then but you’ll find people today that celebrate Columbus.
I think the biggest one that was drilled into us constantly, especially about WW2 and Nazis was
“ Those Who Cannot Remember the Past Are Condemned To Repeat It”
This was a load of shit as evidenced by what is going on in the USA right now and other parts of the world. The real lesson should have been to push back the second a nazi takes an inch as they will take more if you play the nice and tolerate. Not everyone is well intentioned.
USA is a democracy
I was taught that serious academics favored Support Vector Machines over Neural Networks, which industry only loved because they didn’t have proper education. oops…
also, Computer Vision was considered “AI-complete” and likely decades away. ImageNet dropped a couple years I graduated. though I guess it ended up being “AI-complete” in a way…
The book Lies My Teacher Told Me by James W. Loewen goes a long way to accomplish this. At least it did for me.
1987 Edison was a genius and invented everything, Turns out he was actually the Elon Musk of his time.
