How I Obtain Knowledge
How I Obtain Knowledge
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I never learned much to help me, in college. That’s what’s so sad.
What did you take? Arts? Because that would do it.
they have cool explosions. I wish I could’ve died in one of those cement trucks…
That’s not creepy at all..
Lol, good reply Zizix
Switch around Mythbusters and Wikipedia and you have my experience, although the unit of “Albert Einstein” is certainly unorthodox.
I second that.
me too
you take these to literal, there suposed to be funny
I would like to see where mythbusters and wikipedia will get you on a resume. Has anyone tried this?
“I have logged over 400 hours of time on Wikki”
*giggles* You should get some sort of credit for that!!!
“i have been a regular contributor to wikipedia, in fact most of the information on there is from me”
*smile*
You, sir or madame, are awesome.
That explains SO MUCH!
“I’ve seen every single episode of Mythbusters, follow Adam on Twitter, and have written dozens of slashfictions about them.”
Adam has a twitter???? O_O *goes to look*
ADAM HAS A TWITTER?!?! HOW COULD I HAVE A TWITTER AND NOT KNOW ABOUT THIS?!?!
Apparently they make you overqualified and most employers feel threathened. At least that’s what my imagenary friend says.
I have MythBusters on my resume….
If you reverse Mythbusters and Wikipedia, then add another measurement named “Stephen Hawking” and add Google at that level, that would be my chart…
ok, you guys do realize that neither adam nor jamie have a background in science. they are both artists and entertainers, not chemists or engineers. sure what they do is fun, and it somewhat resembles science, but their experiments are not usually conclusive or accurate. i don’t know if anyone else has noticed the new “sciency” shows that keep popping up on the discovery channel and the learning channel ect. but i for one find it disturbing that people are so willing to trade science or edutainment. i think we already have enough confusion to start half assing on all things scientific.
The fact that they make a passing attempt at using the scientific method makes Mythbusters more educational than 95% of the crap on the air. That it is not sufficiently rigorous for the average Graphjam commenter doesn’t take away from that basic fact.
miseducational? i mean, if you give someone bad information, no matter what the intent, its still bad information. not to mention their lack of science might mislead naive people into not taking science seriously. and no matter of good intent takes away from that basic fact.
It’s called making learning fun. Sure it may not be “by the book”, but the concepts are there, and it is probably the most educational thing the average person will see on any given day.
The average american would rather watch a series of explosions to the music of benny hill, rather than a discovery channel documentary on trees.
yeah, because most of us aren’t going to need to know the groth of TREES per year. When we HAVE free time we want to watch something we LIKE, not a boring documentry on trees. ‘Nuff said.
You are aiming too high. MOST people believe magnets have curative properties. MOST people believe St. John’s Wort has medicinal value. MOST people believe that tapping on the top of a tin can will prevent it from spraying when opened. Any show that advocates actual experimental learning over blind ignorant acceptance is a good thing.
you just made my point for me. bad science distorts reality for the average person, making it easier for the unscrupulous to take advantage of them. democracy requires an informed and informed, educated, and involved populous.
if we keep telling half truths by showing people half science half funjutainment
we will have no truth left at all. i think its better to not try to involve science and just blow things up. and let me say i actually enjoy watching the show myself.
it is fun, they are smart and goofy guys, and the blow stuff up.
How has Kari not been mentioned?
I agree. As a scientist myself, Mythbuster experiments in general just make me sad. Or rather, the supposedly solid and definitive conclusions they come up with from a not-so-solid, not-so-scientific “experiment”.
Blowing things up doesn’t always solve the problem, does it?
Blowing things up ALWAYS solves my problems.
It does if your problem involves an unwanted Caravan! (Which is, let’s admit it, all Caravans*
You know, they welcome criticism of their processes and tests. If you believe that one of their conclusions is incorrect and can argue why, they’ll retest. They do it all the time.
Apparently their standards are much more rigorous than the show presents. They just can’t fit all of their findings and processes into a one hour show. And besides, the 95% of people discussed above probably wouldn’t care. Anyway, I watch it when I can and find that most of their conclusions mesh pretty well with previously established findings from more scholarly sources.
It might be anecdotal, but people get into the scientific fields not because of the science programs on the television (generally, at least). They get into them because of the idealization of them in movies, books and television. How many archeologists are there because of Indiana Jones, versus a Discovery documentary. That is the big issue, I think. Getting people to see that you should actually try, and you don’t have to be a Ph.D. in astrophysics to do anything approaching science, which has always been the focus of my science teachers, but truthfully how many students listen to their teachers?
I believe there is room on Television for a show that debunks the Mythbusters. Or supports them with further information.
Come on, producers, make this show! (don’t make me come over there!)
yes click, or even a crawler at the bottom of the screen that has more or more accurate info. that would be winz!
That horror SoB did teach me a lot about poloroids….
Who doesn’t like the MythBusters but this graph makes me so sad. So very very sad…
your probably an english major then.
I think you meant to write “your probably, an english major than”, right?
I think you meant to write “YOU’RE probably, an english major than”, right?
I believe you all meant to write “YOU’RE probably an English major THEN”! (And, no, I’m NOT an English major!)
400 thumbs up on this one!!
MYTHBUSTERS RULE and i Obtain Knowledge the same way
Mythbusters= Epic FTW!
This.
YES. SO true.
The accuracy of this graph is disturbing
SO TRUE!
do you read minds? thats exactly what i do!
When in doubt, blow up a crash test dummy. Epic win.
I think we’re forgetting John Hodgman; the source of all knowledge. At least the things he’s made up.
This is absolutely 100% true.
OH YA!!!
Bill Nye YOU FORGOT BILL NYE! YOU NEED TO PUT BILL NYE!