The Night Crew
- Thread starter JonathonWally
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No, you're missing the point. I said I assumed that at least "50% of relatively-educated" people would know what Schrodinger's Cat was, not 50% of relatively smart people -- I made the distinction from the get go. I even stated that they might not understand the experiment, but I thought they would have heard of it (addressing the fact that not everybody gets physics, intelligent or no). Intelligence didn't even enter the picture for me; I was quite as shocked to find that one of my ex-coworkers, whom I would honestly not consider particularly intelligent, didn't know Schrodinger's Cat as I was to find that Sonia didn't know Schrodinger's Cat. Being a teacher and a student of psychology, I am especially aware of the difference between intelligence (and indeed, the different kinds of intelligence) and education and knowledge: I neither believe that the uneducated are unintelligent and that the intelligent are always educated, nor would I ever insinuate such an idea in any serious manner. Again, I'm sorry if you took offense, but none was intended, and I didn't think it was implied.
I hadn't even gotten to the point of blaming anyone or anything in particular -- I was just expressing my surprise that what I thought was a matter of common knowledge in fact was not. But I agree that the general level of apathy with which the academics are viewed by Americans as a culture is indeed part of the problem.
i was equally astounded when i mentioned to someone i considered intelligent and reasonably well-educated about Warhammer 40K having Byzantine rules and she didn't know what the hell Byzantine meant.
roll on 6PM tonight, i need my day off!
roll on 6PM tonight, i need my day off!
Okay. As I started reading that I thought you were going to express shock that an intelligent and reasonably well-educated person didn't know what Warhammer 40K was, and I was about to be all, "Whaaaa?" and thus was educated on how IHR might have taken my post to mean that I thought smart people ought to know what Schrodinger's Cat is. Again, sorry for the misunderstanding.
no, i don't expect people to know WH40K cuz it's too niche.
And i only know of the one that takes places in the future.
Hit him in the ear!
Blood for the Blood God!
For the Greater Good!
Suffer Not the Witch!
For the Glory of the Emperor!
Death to the False Emperor!
For the Greater Good!
Suffer Not the Witch!
For the Glory of the Emperor!
Death to the False Emperor!
Anti-matter?
Where the hell am I? 
No. 
So it is written, so it shall be done.
So it is written, so it shall be done.
