Going to have to remember that for when I am explaining basic intro models to undergrads
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Completely recommend the Science of Discworld books, specifically the first one. Apparently it's also referenced in prior Stewart and Cohen books, notably The Collapse of Chaos. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lie-to-children#:~:text=The%20definition%20given%20in%20The,been%20primed%20with%20the%20lie%22 ….
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I find it's actually a somewhat effective thing, if not to convince the person being ridiculous, to at least make the people -seeing- them take pause, to reply to "It's just basic [field]!" with "But that means you're not accounting for intermediate or advanced [field]"
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One of the only times I got really mad in high school was when one of my teachers admitted that they'd taught us wrong/oversimplified things *and hadn't told us this* based on the assumption that if we went on, it would be corrected.
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Newtonian physics really is the best thing to reference for this: it works for so many of the cases you would generally see in practical living that it's not really challenged for a long time in one's education-but it's *still* so riddled with exceptions.
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Lies My Teacher Told Me is a great book, btw
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