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Poll: Have you heard of Dalton’s law and the principle of partial pressure? If so, where/when did you learn it?
  • No
    52.1%
  • Yes, high school science
    38%
  • Yes, in college
    6.4%
  • Yes, learned on own
    3.5%
405 votesFinal results
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I keep forgetting how early STEM forks off from mainstream. In my high school, there were 4 tracks: CS and biology on STEM side (targeting engineering and medicine for college) and commerce and arts for humanities/social science side. I think ~40% was STEM and that was high.
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There’s a bunch of “charismatic megascience” stuff that non-STEM people hear about like theory of relativity and e=mc^2 but the 90% of mundane shit STEMmies pick up over 8 years of high school and undergrad is basically alien territory for 2/3 of the population.
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HS, for me, but that was early-mid 80s, & a specialist school (Stuyvesant, NYC). Didn’t end up using IRL until 90s for paintball type stuff. I didn’t realize it was ‘obscure’ to so many either. Kinda sad. Curious about your intended metaphor.
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You had CS in high school? Man where did you people go to high school? I was in high school in the late 90s and I’m not sure we even had any computers in the building. Certainly no STEM (or any other) track, and no CS.