In an atom, the electrons orbit around the nucleus in the same manner as the planets orbit around the sun.
That’s been debunked for many many decades but middle scool still teaches this model. At least I wasn’t told back then how misleading and wrong that is, only in high school right before graduating the physics teacher emphasized this misconception. I remember how mad she was about it lol. I have no clue how its taught elsewhere.
Unironically, that sounds like a great task for AI.
That wouldn’t apply to me because I was privately Christian-schooled.
Oh I’ve got a good one. Learned in the American south. Supposedly the American Civil War was not fought over slavery, but differing railroad track widths. Slavery was a minor detail that was a scape goat for the north to force the south to use its standard railroad width.
“Yeah, but they ain’t disproved my beleif in the flat earth” (sarcasm because crappy day in work)
I was taught that serious academics favored Support Vector Machines over Neural Networks, which industry only loved because they didn’t have proper education. oops…
also, Computer Vision was considered “AI-complete” and likely decades away. ImageNet dropped a couple years I graduated. though I guess it ended up being “AI-complete” in a way…
When I was in school, we were taught that vaccines work. /s
When I graduated highschool, the idea that some dinosaurs had feathers and evolved into birds was still “fringe science”.
In my moc-GCSE year(s), my science teacher was so confident that blood was blue in the veins, I called her out on it but she was so adamant about it.
Sure, some are still taught. Like you can catch a cold from being in the cold.
School experiences are too varied for such a site to exist. Examples:
Climate change was universally agreed upon to exist and be caused by people 30 years ago. For some reason it no longer appears to be.
Leif Erikson was taught to us back then but you’ll find people today that celebrate Columbus.
People believe enough random bullshit to tickle their memories with their classics list.
‘‘You won’t have a calculator in your pocket all the time!’’
I didn’t graduate highschool though
The book Lies My Teacher Told Me by James W. Loewen goes a long way to accomplish this. At least it did for me.
