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In the year 2000?... I would not penalize the student unless he/she specifically labeled Pluto as a planet.
Good imitation of an AV sockpuppet, but you forgot the most important part:Because it was called a planet for decades by SCIENTISTS!
Everyone believed the Big Pluto Lie, because the SCIENTISTS said it was a fact!!
Now SCIENTISTS want us to pretend they never told us the Big Pluto Lie as a FACT!!!
"Science can take a hike!"
In the year 2000?
Did you read the OP?
The student subordinated his belief to the warning given him and put Pluto down as our 9th planet.
And he got an A+.
You would penalize him for that???
In the year 2000?
Did you read the OP?
The student subordinated his belief to the warning given him and put Pluto down as our 9th planet.
And he got an A+.
You would penalize him for that???
It's the year 2000.
You are teaching senior level astronomy at a local high school.
You have a student that, for some reason, consistently leaves Pluto out of the picture as one of the nine planets.
The reason he gives for doing so is simply, "I don't know."
The final is coming up, and your students are instructed that they have one week to build a three-dimensional model of the solar system.
You warn your one student that he is entitled to believe that Pluto isn't our ninth planet if he wants to, but he must comply with standard models, or you will have to count it wrong.
He does so, and gets and A+ on the final.
Value question: In your opinion, is he wrong about Pluto?
BTW --Good imitation of an AV sockpuppet, but you forgot the most important part:
One thing AV fails to grasp is that the "law" dividing the rocks that orbit the sun into groups by size is arbitrary, and acknowledged to be arbitrary. It is not based on some immutable law of nature.
The first presidential election I voted in was in 1972. I grew up "knowing" I would not be able to vote for president until 1976, since I would not turn 21 until 1974. But then the law dividing eligible voters from those too young to vote was changed, and the boundary was moved to 18.
This change in an arbitrary boundary did not invalidate Law. It did not "shake Law to its roots." It did not uproot what we thought we knew about Law. It did not even "unsettle the delicate balance" in the Law. It was barely a blip in the flow of legal facts and events.
Likewise, moving an arbitrary boundary so that Pluto falls on the other side of it than it did before (and the same boundary also moved in the opposite direction, bypassing two or three former asteroids, the four or so rocks collectively defining a brand new group) does not affect any natural law. Nor does it affect any model (aka theory) of how natural law works on the rocks orbiting the sun.
It did not invalidate Science. It did not "shake Science to its roots." It did not uproot what we thought we knew about Science. It did not even "unsettle the delicate balance" in Science. It was barely a blip in the flow of scientific facts and events.
Nope, no bending, just moving and handling them.I feel kinda stupid. The best idea my brain can come up with right now is to start moving them back and forth relative to each other, and whichever one zaps you is not the magnet. I somehow think that's not how induction works, though
Can you bend them?
It's 2012 and AV is talking about Pluto.
Someone asks him about Eris, Makemake and Haumea.
He doesn't know what they're talking about.
They then ask him about Charon, Nix and Hydra.
He still doesn't know what they're talking about.
Should anyone take AVs comments about Pluto seriously?
Chernobyl? Three Mile Island?One shouldn't take any of his comments seriously. He'll probably just bring up that disaster that shall not be named, if you respond.
Even before tragedy struck, the command module was criticized for a number of potentially hazardous design flaws, including the use of a more combustible, 100 percent oxygen atmosphere in the cockpit, an escape hatch that opened inward instead of outward, faulty wiring and plumbing, and the presence of flammable material.
Let me guess... the command module was critizised for all that design flaws by independent fundamental baptists who got their reasons for their crizicism from their literal reading of the Bible!
Or perhaps not?
In the year 2000?
Did you read the OP?
The student subordinated his belief to the warning given him and put Pluto down as our 9th planet.
And he got an A+.
You would penalize him for that???
Chernobyl? Three Mile Island?
This doosey?
If you told me to paint a Chess set, and I painted the Kings & Queens on the wrong color, and you asked me why I did that, and I said my dad always set it up that way ... would you count that against me?If the student did not give a reason for excluding Pluto as a planet. For that reason I would not give an A+. If the student cited specific reasons for not including Pluto as a planet, and that argument was well supported and convincing, then I would give the student an A+.
Do you understand this at all? It is the reasoning that is important, not the word that is used.
All science?You told science to take a hike...
If you told me to paint a Chess set, and I painted the Kings & Queens on the wrong color, and you asked me why I did that, and I said my dad always set it up that way ... would you count that against me?
No, thanks.Either the scientific method works or it doesn't. Take your pick.
No, thanks.
I'm asking you if I ever clarified that statement.
Let me give you a little hint: Posts: 2,247,025.
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