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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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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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Prob this which I tweeted today
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If you’re feeling dissipated, a trick is to prioritize the project with the highest partial pressure while still paying the bills. Analogous to paying off the highest interest rate debt first. Except from the credit side. twitter.com/vgr/status/132…
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