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this post was submitted on 13 Mar 2025
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You know, this should only trick young kids as they genuinely believe taller = more. The fact that it probably tricks a ton of adults just suggests their critical thinking never made it past adolescence and we should be very concerned by that.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Third-pound_burger?wprov=sfla1
Adults in Murica are just as dumb and unneducated
Of course we are, our education system is designed to churn out undereducated, incapable of critical thought, silent, obedient cogs for the corporate machine.
Edit: made a typo
I want to point out that, especially after No Child Left Behind, we've actively worked to teach-to-the-test in public schools. That was a bipartisan compromise to make education "accountable" that ultimately worsened education. Obama's DoE helped, slightly, in 2015 adjustments but it's still no where near where it should be and made only worse by a push to get more charters and affordable private schools that don't understand pedagogy.
That is to say, uneducated isn't quite right as It's not a lack of education, but more of a misguided pedagogy that prioritizes rote memorization over deductive reasoning and critical thinking. It's not a lack of trying, but an avoidence of evidence based approaches.
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