Comments on: Here We Go Again http://rightwingnation.com/2008/10/05/here-we-go-again-3/ A little sanity in an insane blogosphere Sun, 14 Mar 2010 06:32:50 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.2.3 By: Midget Launcher http://rightwingnation.com/2008/10/05/here-we-go-again-3/#comment-124064 Midget Launcher Mon, 06 Oct 2008 14:44:49 +0000 http://rightwingnation.com/2008/10/05/here-we-go-again-3/#comment-124064 And once they've written these models, let them contemplate how wildly wrong their results are. It would be fun if you could then bring up the topic of climate modeling. But that would be advocacy. Actually, the more I think about it, the more it seems that if you expose kids to the difficulties of modeling nontrivial stuff, that's conservative advocacy almost by definition. And once they’ve written these models, let them contemplate how wildly wrong their results are.

It would be fun if you could then bring up the topic of climate modeling. But that would be advocacy.

Actually, the more I think about it, the more it seems that if you expose kids to the difficulties of modeling nontrivial stuff, that’s conservative advocacy almost by definition.

]]> By: Darren http://rightwingnation.com/2008/10/05/here-we-go-again-3/#comment-124060 Darren Sun, 05 Oct 2008 17:45:24 +0000 http://rightwingnation.com/2008/10/05/here-we-go-again-3/#comment-124060 I don't think I'll be teaching this to my one class where decimals, fractions, or negative numbers generate instant "learned helplessness." I don’t think I’ll be teaching this to my one class where decimals, fractions, or negative numbers generate instant “learned helplessness.”

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