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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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Yeah I don’t think you can casually drop that into a conversation and expect to be understood. But the underlying intuitions should be available to all (balloons, boiling kettles, pressure cookers...)
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There is a STEM way of thinking that is a bit foreign to the arts and commerce graduates. We realised this when I married (CA). She needed an adjustment period when she joined my gang of STEM buddies. (I had the reverse problem later)
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In DC/MD on public school side, testing in 5th grade funneled kids to “magnet schools” starting in 6th grade, so the divergence started by 12 years old? There must be research on resulting worldview (+ socioeconomic mobility) schism out there by now.
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