One of the biggest impacts of STEM education is simply raising the waterline of what it means to "understand" something
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In physics, you understand something if you can derive the properties from 1st principles; in CS, you understand if you can code it
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This is important to keep in mind when making pop sci statements that we don't "understand" things like gravity or quantum mechanics
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That's accurate, but only from a notion of understanding wayyyyyyy beyond that of most people (see here: http://meaningness.com/understanding )
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@Meaningness much of the intellectual work that comes post STEM edu is learning when *not* to apply reductive understanding
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