Ignorant people are one of my least favorite things. Now I'm not saying that every person needs to be some super genius or something like that (after all, I'm certainly not one) but I feel there are some basic facts that people should just know, not because they need to know these facts to succeed in life, but just because if you don't, you come off as kind of dumb. Here are some examples of ignorant statements I've heard recently: Someone in my history class asked if Brazil was one of the seven continents. Someone in my history class was talking about the city of Boston, and someone (the same girl that asked the Brazil question) asked if Boston was in California. In my history class, one of the questions on the final was how many states are there in the U.S.? One seventh of the class got it wrong. (Mind you these are kids who have lived most or all of there life in the U.S.) My math teacher asked if Earth revolved around the Sun. On a game show, someone was asked to name a country in Africa. You know what she answered? "Africa." These are just a few examples of ignorance I've experienced in my life, what about you guys? (fyi this thread is for non-animal related ignorance as this thread is for that stuff: Things people do that irritate you when you go to the zoo? #2.)
Someone in my class asked where Central America was. My teacher went on Google Maps to show her. After this she asked "Is that island underneath Florida Australia?".
This was about 15 years ago at this point, but I'll never forget a student jokingly asking our English teacher, who wasn't the brightest, if there were any civil war soldiers still alive. She took him seriously. And didn't know the answer.
I can remember visiting Little Big Horn with my dad and we worked out that there would have been been indians who fought against Custer who he could have technically met before they died.
But is math related to science? What about non-zoo animal related ignorance? Here in Brazil, I was seeing the news and a snake entered in someone's washing machine. The environmental police was called and released it in its natural habitat after identifying it as a Boa constrictor. But it was a ball python (yes, those were the national news).
It isn't math related but my point is I feel like it is a pretty well known fact that we all learn very early in life and all should know
As a math teacher, they should know that the sun revolves around Flat Earth, because spheres can not exist in this universe.
As a Uk'r there are multiple examples of this. Short list: Somebody thought North America was Scotland in my geography class. In my history class, a person was explaining USA involvment in World War II. Then another person chimed in " but didn't the UK control them?" Also history, somebody thought that the first president was Donald Trump. In English somebody thought Shakespeare's first name was Fred. Also in Geography, the teacher was asking students about idealogies. One person said " USA, Facist, Russia, Communist
Someone once tried to convince me that Russia and Germany were both continents. I read an article written by an ornithologist who does a lot of work in Antarctica. He said that he is frequently asked if penguins are mammals.
I think the most embarrassing instance of this ever was when George W. Bush referred to Africa as a country.
It seems like the wasn't enough to make it clear that it was a joke... I need to think of new technologies to differ jokes from non-jokes. By the way, I just remembered that here in a Brazil people pour table salt in Cururu/Cane toads for fun and, for those who have no clue of what happens next, keep in mind of their cutaneous respirations, their dependance on water, what happens when you pour salt in a living flesh wound and its hydrophily (although I'm not sure if this categorize more as ignorance or hypocrisy). Someone knows if this is common in other places?
That's ****ing disgusting. Here in the States we have idiots who try to tip over sleeping cows, and people who pick up frogs, trying to get them to scream.
No he didn't. Referring to the continental US (i.e. 48 states), he said: "I’ve now been in 50... 7 states? I think one left to go." He obviously meant 47, hence the pause.
It's surprising to me that some adults do not realise the moon is not constantly on the opposite side of Earth to the sun, despite it being visible regularly during daylight hours
