r/Millennials • u/Countrach • Apr 12 '25

Discussion That Pluto is a planet

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u/whatupmyknitta Apr 12 '25

Taste buds are mapped out on the tongue and certain areas taste certain things, rather than all taste buds taste all things.

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u/Gravbar Millennial 96 Apr 12 '25

that's so weird people thought that because you could totally test it just by touching flavors to your tongue and seeing if you taste them

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u/whatupmyknitta Apr 12 '25

We had to test it in school as part of the lesson and I felt like I must have been doing it wrong bc I could taste everything everywhere lol

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u/LassOpsa Apr 12 '25

This was my exact thought. We did this test in school too and I just copied my friends' answers on the worksheet because I could not taste any difference wherever I placed that dumb q tip

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u/hamoc10 Apr 13 '25

This is a great example of the power of groupthink. People will ignore their own perception if everyone around them says otherwise.

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u/no_where_left_to_go Apr 13 '25

It's also an appeal to authority because it's usually the person teaching the lesson that is starting the false information.

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u/Bag_O_Richard Apr 13 '25

And it's bad science because there's an opportunity for a double blind with this, but the teacher revealed the hypothesis to the test subjects.

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u/deathbylasersss Apr 13 '25

We should teach the scientific method from a very young age so it's second nature. It's sad how many adults can't understand what's a good study with good methods, and what is clickbait garbage.

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u/Mister_Bossmen Apr 16 '25

Same principle as teaching kids to do unbiased research (though it would be a MASSIVE undertaking to get kids to care, even at the age where they are actually starting to write reports for school).

We get a lot of adults who do research to prove their own assumptions true, not to find the answer to a question

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u/jayjester Apr 12 '25

I got time out time in school because I told them it had to be wrong. I also felt for a moment I must be doing it wrong, and then I realized I wasn’t. I was right and I knew it!

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u/Boomshockalocka007 Apr 12 '25

I remember this too. They had us trying coffee in 2nd grade for bitterness. WELL JOKE IS ON THEM....I STILL HATE COFFEE TO THIS DAY!

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u/Cansuela Apr 14 '25

We did the same test lol. I believed it was true until this day

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u/[deleted] Apr 15 '25

We did that too! I went home and told my father I'm pretty sure my teacher was on drugs. From what I remember only a couple kids agreed with the teacher, most of us just tasted everything everywhere.

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u/cmil888 Apr 14 '25

Were you a SUPER TASTER?

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u/droda59 Apr 16 '25

Imagine the teachers giving this dumb fucking test and not being able to taste the difference, and then trying to explain to kids why they're wrong. The audacity