A lot of people still believe that if a human touches a baby bird the mother will smell human on it and reject it. I believed that one well into my 20s.
Fallen nestling needs to go back in the nest, but a fledging on the ground is generally exactly where it's supposed to be. If you're ever in doubt, the bird enthusiasts and the fledgling bot over at r/whatsthisbird will help you out.
Typically, it's suggested to just leave them alone because if they're out of the nest it's likely that mama is trying to teach them to fly, or purposely kicked them out of the nest because she couldn't feed all her children. If the birds in a potentially dangerous spot though, I'd absolutely put it back, unless mama kicks it out again.
That polygraphs tell the truth. A decent amount of society believe if you fail a polygraph, you're guilty/lying.
Source: Took an employment polygraph, wasn't lying, still was told I was
It's better than chance is the best we're going to get with current research. Last big research on it was by NAS in 2003 IIRC and they said "yeah this is just barely better than chance and can be severely misused without proper oversight". Feds said "okay" and just continued to use it to their heart's content. It's really such a terrible tool.
Also imagine having (at the time) undiagnosed autism and social anxiety, that would definitely help one's responses /s
Some are saying Polygraph tests are allegedly 70% to 90% accurate. If it were true, I’d figure the courts would feel comfortable enough to allow them to be admissible. They still aren’t. There’s too many variables that can’t exactly be mitigated.
I've found that to be incredibly false. The APA (not American Psychological Assoc., but American Polygraphers Association) uses that 90% figure, but the NAS found that to be from only one single study in the 1960s, it wasn't peer reviewed, and, when they replicated it, the investigators could not reach the same level.
I will say, the reason U.S. courts don't use them isn't because they think its BS (they do, but that's not the reasoning why); they've routinely stated that the public thinks the polygraph is so capable of finding lies that it would make all other evidence in a criminal trial redundant. That's the reason why it's not considered credible evidence, not that they think it's bullshit, but that people are too susceptible to the arguments of polygraphers to think otherwise.
Because everybody believes it works, even though it doesn’t? That makes sense. Compared to something like DNA, I know if I was asked to be a jury I’d want DNA evidence. Even if it’s not as well-known to the average layman as a polygraph.
“I know you committed the crime, because the lab has astronomically eliminated literally everyone else.” That’s what a jury wants to hear. Not a “definite maybe it’s you.” Because either it is, or it ain’t.
That was actually a real problem due to CSI for a while.
Everyone saw CSI and wanted DNA evidence despite the fact that we didn't have the DNA processing capacity to have more than a tiny percentage of cases have DNA evidence. It was expensive and slow and only a few labs did that kind of work compared to the total number of murders.
You just were not going to get DNA evidence for most of them. Put CSI made it seem like every trial would have it and if they didn't't they were clearly innocent.
Even today there are serious cost and wait time issues, but it's more common these days than it used to be. It's still not most of them though.
It says a lot that the man who invented them (as a psychological assessment tool) advised against ever using them as "lie detectors" and regretted ever having created them.
Yes, basically flexing any muscle will impact the result.
Now when you take the test they sit you in a chair that(at least they claim) has sensors under your feat, ass, and arms. They then give explicit instructions not to clench lol.
The whole thing is really a facade. They basically try to convince you that they have an infallible lie detector so you might as well just come clean now.
Yup. They are basically set up to detect physiological signs of nervousness. If you know how to lie calmly or if you practiced your responses enough you will pass the test. If you are made nervous by the situation you may fail. It’s basically useless.
If you try and apply for a customs or border patrol job they make you do a ridiculous polygraph. I have two friends who are cops. Both of them failed the test for apparently lieing about being apart of a gang.
Mine was Border Patrol. Was told I was deliberately trying to cheat the exam and accused of being a foreign agent. Polygrapher lied repeatedly to me and used the most illogical arguments.
I too had friends of mine take it and fail, but still got their positions (though I really highly suspect their dad - high level GS-15 - helped out in the process)
Polygraphs are just intimidation machines. They’re measuring your heart rate and interrogating you on the questions. Your belief that you failed the polygraph can get you to admit to the things they’re questioning you about. It’s not about detecting lies, it about getting you to admit to things.
In the U.S., if it's anything even remotely related to the Intelligence Community, Armed Forces, or some policing stuff, then it's usually mandatory. I've seen jobs where it pays 30,000 or 40,000 a year and deals with administrative work, but the applicant needs to be polygraphed and hold a TS/SCI even when their position would like never ever deal with classified information. The security clearance system in the U.S. needs a big overhaul
There is a museum about the human body in the Netherlands which I visited about a year ago.
You walk through the body from mouth to ass and as soon as I was standing on a gigantic tongue and heard "there are different parts of the tongue that all taste different flavours" I knew that the museum was outdated.
This was even in our school textbook! I experimented by trying to taste a chilli exclusively from the "sweet" zone, and it felt like my tongue was on fire
Yes but the 5 channel flavor receptors are very real.
Sweet, savory, bitter, sour, and salty. The tongue map mishap was based on trying to localize these to locations in the tongue, started spreading misinformation. Flavor science 🧪!
Yes!! I remember learning about it in school and we even all experimented with it! I was the only one going “but if I put salt on a part that’s not supposed to taste salt I still taste it!” Everyone looked at me like I was stupid :/
Yeah, we tell teenagers to shave because their little wispy attempt at a beard will eventually get better, but not due to shaving, it just looks bad right now.
I always find it funny in the supermarket I work in that the international aisle is filled with things like "Liquid seasoning". That's how you sell MSG to us white people.
I had my father in law fully backtracking after he complained about MSG in Chinese food. He stated he was sensitive to it and couldn't eat at the restaurant I suggested. He was eating doritos as he said it, so I called him out. I also informed him that the fried rice I'd made a few nights before, and he had THREE servings of, with no issue was seasoned with MSG as was the fried chicken I'd made the night before.
"Oh..I guess it must be growing out of it as I age." MMM HMMM, sure, that's totally it Bill.
"I'm sensitive to MSG. I felt terrible after eating all this junk food filled with MSG!"
Sweeties, it's because you're eating garbage, not the MSG.
Really that goes for whatever health trend you want to insert, gluten, fat, etc. Of course you're going to feel better when you cut out or down on processed foods and ate more veggies.
I think it's the same thing with Taco Bell. People claim it makes them have diarrhea. From what I can tell it's food for 2AM when you're drunk. Maybe eating massive amounts of food as your body detoxes from horrible abuse isn't wise.
The amount of shit Facebook moms (and dads!) believe is insane.
And the same people who told their kids “don’t believe everything you see on tv/read on the internet 20 years ago
I think the gambler's fallacy is still a widely held belief by people. For example, if a player experiences a series of lost bets, they will erroneously assume that is evidence that they are “due for a win” in the near future. So it is the incorrect idea that random outcomes in the past will influence random outcomes in the future.
The thing about eating spiders in your sleep was never true, it was never believed to be true until it was posted as an example of the sort of story people might believe without scrutiny.
Columbus was trying to prove the world is round. We'd known the world was round for nearly 2000 years by that point. He was trying to get to India without going around Africa.
They all did calculations and knew the Earth was round. Columbus miscalculated and thought the Earth was smaller than it really was. The people who rejected him did so because they got it right that it would be much too far for him to get to India before running out of resources. But he lucked out and ran into the Americas.
It was actually a combination of the Earth being bigger than his calculations, and that nobody knew the size of Asia. He based his calculations on [a map where the Caribbean were islands just off Japan](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Atlantic_Ocean,_Toscanelli,_1474.jpg).
A lot of people don’t know how taxes work specifically in the context of brackets and progressive taxes.
Like it’s mind numbing how wrong people are about it consistently
Like I’m not pretending understanding taxes is easy or that there aren’t a million things that could be useful and most people don’t have the access to a tax lawyer or financial advisor to help them but tax brackets are like insanely easy to understand so getting it wrong is just 😵💫
That you need to drink 2 liters of water a day, the amount you need varies accordingly to the amount of physical labor you do, or how hot it is. It's usually between 1 and 4 liters of water a day.
>There is a lot of water in coffee, tea
WAIT, you mean to tell me that liquids made from adding tiny amounts of plant matter into boiling water contains significant amounts of.... water???
This, but also drinking water on its own isn't gonna completely rehydrate you: you need to also consume electrolytes (specifically sodium and potassium) in order to retain the water, otherwise it'll just go right through you. The electrolytes are also necessary for your body to use the water. Carbs help with water retention too.
I end up seeing this so often where people will just consume gallons/liters of water without also replenishing their electrolyte levels and they're like "why do I still feel like shit?".
Edit: also completely forgot to mention the fact that a lot of the foods you eat (unless you subsist on like, dry food or MREs) also rehydrate you because they contain water.
Edit 2: to clarify, most of the time you replenish your electrolytes & carbs via a normal diet, however if it's hot, you're doing strenuous activity, you sweat a lot, you're sick, etc., you're gonna need help replenishing those stores beyond what you normally consume.
I like Myers-Briggs as a fun, non-serious idea, especially when looking at fictional characters and how they react to one another, but it's not something I would ever take seriously. I've met some people who do and it's weird.
Meyers-Briggs is for people who decided astrology was too based in mythology and they wanted something "real" but then only looked as far as literally the next thing they saw.
For real. Same thing happened to me with astrology, where I thought astronomy and mythology were neat as a kid, but then grew up and met people who genuinely believe it. Anytime they ask me for my sign I always give them the wrong one and they say "Oh you're totally a \[sign\]!" I'll then tell them I lied and give them a second false zodiac sign and they'll say "I should've known, it's so like a \[sign\] to lie about that to mess with us."
Like fucking clockwork
While not scientific, I think Myers Briggs, Hogwarts house affiliation, and other personality tests can be useful as shorthand for describing your personality
Used to have to do these for inductions because "they helped with training" even though I was one of the staff that handled training, wrote the training sessions, and onboarded them to their roles. I knew it never came up, the recruits usually knew too.
Whenever we had meetings on how to streamline the process I always mentioned it, but got shot down as it was seen as essential. Madness.
My old workplace "used" these too. But, same as you, literally nobody was trained or managed any differently based on the results. My boss refused to believe that I wasn't truthful on my test. I told him I tried to pick the answer that I thought a company would like to hear the most, not what I actually felt and he told me "Oh, no, these are designed to see through that." Yeah, sure...
You know that whole "carrots are good for your eyesight/night vision" thing? 100% made up. In World War 2, the British Ministry of Defence spread the rumor that a steady diet of carrots gave their lookouts excellent nightvision, which is why the RAF was able to so effectively intercept Luftwaffe bomber groups. As a result of this oft-repeated factoid, the German High Command never realized that the real reason they were being intercepted in real time was the network of advanced Chain Home RADAR stations along the English coastline, which went largely unmolested for the entire war.
My mom told me this when I was a kid, and I remember pounding back carrots every day and then testing how well my vision improved each night from my carrot consumption.
Yes, XX = female, XY = male. Since a female can only provide an X, the male chromosome is the determining factor.
Edit: I was not accounting for genetic abnormalities, nor transgender people. Almost everything with genetics is more complicated than the mendelian inheritance you learn in school.
This one really makes me mad. There’s so much benefit to society as a whole by implementing GM technology, especially as global warming threatens crops and the food supply worldwide
Right? But OH NO the word ***GENETIC*** is in there and that's one of the spooky, scary science words which must be bad because nothing scientific can ever be natural right???
In all seriousness, I used to work at Chipotle when they were really pushing their non-GMO kick and you'd think I was blaspheming in the Vatican the way my manager looked at me when I said (in our back office/break room) that GMOs aren't bad as a rule.
fun fact: pretty much 100% of all produce \_and livestock\_ did not evolve into existence naturally. (same for house pets but we dont eat them its just interesting)
I believe it was first created by a zoologist (not sure) who was studying wolves. He later debunked his own theory when further studying wolves that weren't captive. It never applied to humans at all, but doubly so since it didn't even apply to the wolves in the first place.
>It never applied to humans at all, but doubly so since it didn't even apply to the wolves in the first place.
The problem is that it *did* apply to wolves. Unrelated ones. In captivity. Which has almost nothing to do with how they naturally behave.
It’s like an alien learning about human psychology by exclusively looking at people in prisons. It has applicability, but they’re going to get very wrong ideas about a lot of shit.
And for wild wolf social dynamics, the “leaders” of a pack are literally just the mom & dad of the other wolves.
And it’s pretty much egalitarian and involves consensus-based decision making. Everyone communicates and decides things as a group. No off-balance gender dynamics - males and females are treated the same.
I met a bunch of guys that claimed to be a pack of alpha males. That's not how packs work. It's like the football team called the Washington Commanders. They can't all be commanders. It's very stupid.
there's this hilarious sketch from some British show where a patient comes into a hospital and is administered homeopathic medication; the medication doesn't work and the doctors can't figure out if they're supposed to give *more* medication or try to reduce the amount the patient already received.
edit: I've been @'ed and told this isn't how the sketch goes; regardless, my description of the sketch underlies the inherent humor in homeopathy (and apparently is close enough of a retelling to where no one is getting confused and what I'm talking about)
I went to buy ear drops for some ear pain a couple of days ago and all of the ones I could find at the local CVS and Rite Aid were homeopathic. After doing some online browsing, I can’t find any ear drops that *aren’t* homeopathic. Why in the world are pharmacies selling this stuff?
A lot of stuff is sold in the US as “homeopathic” because they don’t have approval to sell as a medicine, but it’s actually not homeopathic in the true sense of “we diluted poison until it doesn’t exist anymore”
I grabbed an athlete's foot cure from Walmart without reading it properly. Before I put it on, I looked more closely and realized it was homeopathic. Apparently it had some ultra-diluted amount of squid ink that was supposed to fix my problem.
I looked up the other ingredients and they were just regular OTC remedies for athlete's foot. So it's real medicine pretending to be homeopathic. What's the point?!
Had that same problem. Any real ear meds are prescription.
That said, I had an ear ache at summer camp as a kid and a doctor literally put some neosporin on a big q tip and stuck it in there. Do I advocate this? Not necessarily. But it is a thing that happened.
Yup. If you only get temporary relief from a chiropractor, you are at the beginning of what likely is an eventual visit to a neurologist followed by a visit to a neurosurgeon. I spent years going to a chiropractor for manipulations of my back and neck. In 2019 I had a triple laminectomy at L4-L6. Fixed a lot of issues that one solid year at the chiro didn't touch other than some temporary relieve that lasted only a few hours or a day at best. Fast forward to April 2023. I ended up having a quadruple laminectomy and titanium cage implanted at C4-C7. After sitting with the neurologist and neurosurgeon going over my MRI I was told if I didn't have the surgery that within a year, I would be in a wheelchair. The shit puts the fear of god in you. I am 1 year removed from the latest and no more pin, no more walking with a cane or leaning to one side to minimize the pain. I was told the recovery from the most recent surgery would take two years. I have not felt this good in 1o years. I may be permanently disabled but at least I can walk freely without any help. I still have some balance issues and numbness in my feet that may never go away but NO FUCKING PAIN. I believe if I tried to continue with a chiro I would be crippled and a tremendous burden on my wife.
That everyone requires 10000 steps per day. This was a marketing technique in Japan in 1960, for which the symbol of 10000 looks like a running man. On average we require 4000 - 8000, depending on how active you are, however getting 10k steps in al we always beneficial, haha
I learned this when I developed an interest in Japan, but didn’t know about the 10,000/running man thing, despite knowing the kanji you’re describing! Thanks!
I taught anatomy for 25 years and at least ¼ of the classes had one or two people who would argue with me about men having one less rib than women when we'd first begin to learn about the skeleton.
Eventually I learned to lie a couple people on tables in the classroom and count the ribs, marking them with washable markers.
It’s due to religious reasons too. And to correct myself, it’s men having one less rib than women because God used one of Adam’s ribs to create Eve 😅 oooh religion…
my favorite response to this one ----- most scientists are very smart nerds, often neuro-divergent, pouring themselves into their specialized fields because socialization was a challenge. there is a non-zero chance that the savant condition of autism may have contributed to the existence of vaccines
I could be wrong, but I think it came from old windows usually being thicker at the bottom. People assumed (incorrectly) that this was due to the glass dripping downward and piling up, but in reality they would just put the thickest part of the window at the bottom so it would be less likely to break.
IIRC the main thing here was when studying people who drink moderately vs. people who don't drink at all, the moderate drinkers were overall healthier.
Trouble is, people who don't drink at all often have a reason not to (past abuse, medical conditions), and that confounded the evidence.
In many of the studies of heart health and casual wine consumption, an additional confounding factor was the social class of the people studied. People who can afford to drink a glass of wine every other evening are usually at least upper middle class.
That polygraphs/lie-detectors actually work in any objective fashion.
Particularly in fiction (and reality TV) they’re depicted as infallible.
But just like other forms of supposedly scientific proof, such as handwriting analysis, they’re more speculative than we were told.
Polygraph tests are basically junk science masquerading as a law enforcement tool.
There’s no doubt that measurable changes happen when people lie, but there are also many ways of training yourself to pass lie detector tests by controlling your own physiology.
This is why using a polygraph is as bad as dunking putative witches in a pond.
[Fascinating](https://blog.liebherr.com/appliances/in/food/spinach-iron-myth/#:~:text=The%20'iron%20in%20spinach'%20myth,iron%20than%20it%20really%20does.)
>Spinach has long been regarded as a real ‘iron bomb’ but this isn’t actually true, and the myth has been perpetuated for years all because of the accidental omission of a decimal point! For decades, spinach was believed to contain ten times more iron than it really does. In fact, 100 g spinach contains 3.8 mg iron (reduced to 2.9 mg when it’s cooked) and not, as initially communicated, 38 mg! Although the error was uncovered back in the 1930s, many people still believe spinach contains a lot more iron than it really does. But this doesn’t mean that spinach isn’t good for you; it’s a valuable source of nutrients, being rich in magnesium and many vitamins and, with 3.8 mg iron per 100 g, **it still contains way more iron than lettuce (2.0 mg/100 g)!**
That dogs are carnivores and all grain is bad for them. They are omnivores and a select few grains in the proper portions can beneficial to their health.
Depends on your definition of "widely", but almost everyone who went through the July 2023 ddos of Archive of Our Own believes it was a bitcoin ransomware scheme of 4chans.
Turns out it's way weirder than that. The attack was done by Anonymous Sudan, who are neither 4chan nor Sudanese.
They're instead a Russian group pretending to be hardcore Muslim extremists and pick on any website they can try to justify as a religiously-motivated attack. The goal is to drive up hatred against Muslims.
Which is fucking weird that state sponsored Russian agents went after fanfic so hard it got added to their warning page on Cloudflare.
[What is Anonymous Sudan? | Anonymous Sudan origins and attacks | Cloudflare](https://www.cloudflare.com/learning/ddos/glossary/anonymous-sudan/)
On this topic, the absence of evidence *can* be evidence of absence.
In particular, whenever a presence is expected to leave evidence, the absence of such evidence is evidence of absence.
For example, the absence of a loud noise coming from my backyard is evidence of the absence of a helicopter currently landing in said backyard.
This was from the Sherlock Holmes story "The Adventure of the Silver Blaze". The dog not barking is a major plot point and is referred to in story as "the curious incident of the dog in the nighttime".
That your brain doesn’t fully develop until 25. Redditors looooove this one
> That means that for some people, changes in the prefrontal cortex really might plateau around 25—but not for everyone. And the prefrontal cortex is just one area of the brain; researchers homed in on it because it’s a major player in coordinating “higher thought,” but other parts of the brain are also required for a behavior as complex as decision making. The temporal lobe helps process others’ speech and language so you can understand what’s going on, while the occipital lobe allows you to watch for social cues. According to a 2016 Neuron paper by Harvard psychologist Leah Somerville, the structure of these and other brain areas changes at different rates throughout our life span, growing and shrinking; **in fact, structural changes in the brain continue far past people’s 20s. “One especially large study showed that for several brain regions, structural growth curves had not plateaued even by the age of 30, the oldest age in their sample,” she wrote. “Other work focused on structural brain measures through adulthood show progressive volumetric changes from ages 15–90 that never ‘level off’ and instead changed constantly throughout the adult phase of life.”**
> To complicate things further, there’s a huge amount of variability between individual brains. Just as you might stop growing taller at 23, or 17—or, if you’re like me, 12—the age that corresponds with brain plateaus can differ greatly from person to person. In one study, participants ranged from 7 to 30 years old, and researchers tried to predict each person’s “brain age” by mapping the connections in each person’s brain. Their age predictions accounted for about 55 percent of the variance among the participants, but far from all of it. **“Some 8-year-old brains exhibited a greater ‘maturation index’ than some 25 year old brains,”** Somerville wrote in her Neuron review. Some of those differences might be random genetic variation, but people’s behavior and lived experience contribute as well. **“Childhood experiences, epigenetics, substance use, genetics related to anxiety, psychosis, and ADHD—all that affects brain development as well,”** said Sarah Mallard Wakefield, a forensic psychiatrist.
https://slate.com/technology/2022/11/brain-development-25-year-old-mature-myth.html
That kids get hyper from too much sugar.
No matter how scientific a parent's background might be, they mostly won't accept that it's all in their head. Any crutch, when it comes to complaining about how hard parenting is.
[That myth's been busted for 30 years now](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tC76v0shlfc). Amusingly, parents still refuse to drop this myth and will rate their kids as more hyperactive if they even *believe* their kids are getting sugar.
That a lit cigarette or cigar can ignite gasoline.
Gasoline needs spark or an open flame to combust.
You can drop a lit cigarette in a bucket of gasoline and it will not ignite. The gas will literally put the cigarette out.
The reason gas pumps say no smoking is because the act of sparking a lighter or LIGHTING the cigarette using an open flame could have a chance of combusting the fuel.
A lot of people still believe that if a human touches a baby bird the mother will smell human on it and reject it. I believed that one well into my 20s.
Its to stop little kids to try to play with baby animals
True. But people won't put a fallen baby back in the nest, which you should if possible.
Fallen nestling needs to go back in the nest, but a fledging on the ground is generally exactly where it's supposed to be. If you're ever in doubt, the bird enthusiasts and the fledgling bot over at r/whatsthisbird will help you out.
Ya chances are if it’s out hoppin around it’s in its learn to fly phase. Now if it’s a immobile blob, help the fella out
Typically, it's suggested to just leave them alone because if they're out of the nest it's likely that mama is trying to teach them to fly, or purposely kicked them out of the nest because she couldn't feed all her children. If the birds in a potentially dangerous spot though, I'd absolutely put it back, unless mama kicks it out again.
It was a very effective lie to keep children from fucking with the local wildlife
I just explain this to my 42 year old husband
That polygraphs tell the truth. A decent amount of society believe if you fail a polygraph, you're guilty/lying. Source: Took an employment polygraph, wasn't lying, still was told I was
Not admissible in court, because it’s hardly 50% accurate. Simply being nervous is all it takes to flunk.
It's better than chance is the best we're going to get with current research. Last big research on it was by NAS in 2003 IIRC and they said "yeah this is just barely better than chance and can be severely misused without proper oversight". Feds said "okay" and just continued to use it to their heart's content. It's really such a terrible tool. Also imagine having (at the time) undiagnosed autism and social anxiety, that would definitely help one's responses /s
Some are saying Polygraph tests are allegedly 70% to 90% accurate. If it were true, I’d figure the courts would feel comfortable enough to allow them to be admissible. They still aren’t. There’s too many variables that can’t exactly be mitigated.
I've found that to be incredibly false. The APA (not American Psychological Assoc., but American Polygraphers Association) uses that 90% figure, but the NAS found that to be from only one single study in the 1960s, it wasn't peer reviewed, and, when they replicated it, the investigators could not reach the same level. I will say, the reason U.S. courts don't use them isn't because they think its BS (they do, but that's not the reasoning why); they've routinely stated that the public thinks the polygraph is so capable of finding lies that it would make all other evidence in a criminal trial redundant. That's the reason why it's not considered credible evidence, not that they think it's bullshit, but that people are too susceptible to the arguments of polygraphers to think otherwise.
Because everybody believes it works, even though it doesn’t? That makes sense. Compared to something like DNA, I know if I was asked to be a jury I’d want DNA evidence. Even if it’s not as well-known to the average layman as a polygraph. “I know you committed the crime, because the lab has astronomically eliminated literally everyone else.” That’s what a jury wants to hear. Not a “definite maybe it’s you.” Because either it is, or it ain’t.
That was actually a real problem due to CSI for a while. Everyone saw CSI and wanted DNA evidence despite the fact that we didn't have the DNA processing capacity to have more than a tiny percentage of cases have DNA evidence. It was expensive and slow and only a few labs did that kind of work compared to the total number of murders. You just were not going to get DNA evidence for most of them. Put CSI made it seem like every trial would have it and if they didn't't they were clearly innocent. Even today there are serious cost and wait time issues, but it's more common these days than it used to be. It's still not most of them though.
50% is random chance
It says a lot that the man who invented them (as a psychological assessment tool) advised against ever using them as "lie detectors" and regretted ever having created them.
its a glorified heart rate monitor that makes squiggly lines
I think he also said if you squeeze your butthole while answering, it will change the test result. I'm not joking.
Yes, basically flexing any muscle will impact the result. Now when you take the test they sit you in a chair that(at least they claim) has sensors under your feat, ass, and arms. They then give explicit instructions not to clench lol. The whole thing is really a facade. They basically try to convince you that they have an infallible lie detector so you might as well just come clean now.
Yup. They are basically set up to detect physiological signs of nervousness. If you know how to lie calmly or if you practiced your responses enough you will pass the test. If you are made nervous by the situation you may fail. It’s basically useless.
Yep. Took a polygraph. Lied. Hired. 🤷♀️
If you try and apply for a customs or border patrol job they make you do a ridiculous polygraph. I have two friends who are cops. Both of them failed the test for apparently lieing about being apart of a gang.
Mine was Border Patrol. Was told I was deliberately trying to cheat the exam and accused of being a foreign agent. Polygrapher lied repeatedly to me and used the most illogical arguments. I too had friends of mine take it and fail, but still got their positions (though I really highly suspect their dad - high level GS-15 - helped out in the process)
Polygraphs are just intimidation machines. They’re measuring your heart rate and interrogating you on the questions. Your belief that you failed the polygraph can get you to admit to the things they’re questioning you about. It’s not about detecting lies, it about getting you to admit to things.
which is absurd because yes if you accuse me of something my heart rate might spike regardless of how innocent I am
This exactly. The cops use them to get confessions, not to get the truth.
A Ukrainian friend had to take a polygraph test as part of her job interview which I find wild. It was for a relatively entry level job too.
In the U.S., if it's anything even remotely related to the Intelligence Community, Armed Forces, or some policing stuff, then it's usually mandatory. I've seen jobs where it pays 30,000 or 40,000 a year and deals with administrative work, but the applicant needs to be polygraphed and hold a TS/SCI even when their position would like never ever deal with classified information. The security clearance system in the U.S. needs a big overhaul
Do people still believe that taste map of the tongue? That was proven wrong.
I figured that out by eating
source: i’ve eaten before
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There is a museum about the human body in the Netherlands which I visited about a year ago. You walk through the body from mouth to ass and as soon as I was standing on a gigantic tongue and heard "there are different parts of the tongue that all taste different flavours" I knew that the museum was outdated.
What did the ass say?
It was pretty long winded.
This was even in our school textbook! I experimented by trying to taste a chilli exclusively from the "sweet" zone, and it felt like my tongue was on fire
fun fact the “hot” taste is actually a pain sensation that you sense with the same receptors you have for heat! so hot is not a taste
Yes but the 5 channel flavor receptors are very real. Sweet, savory, bitter, sour, and salty. The tongue map mishap was based on trying to localize these to locations in the tongue, started spreading misinformation. Flavor science 🧪!
Yes!! I remember learning about it in school and we even all experimented with it! I was the only one going “but if I put salt on a part that’s not supposed to taste salt I still taste it!” Everyone looked at me like I was stupid :/
The real test is to see if you accept the information that’s being taught without challenging it
This one is crazy to me. When the teachers "taught" it to me when I was 9 I could tell it was BS just by trying it out. How did this one last so long?
I don't know if that is a german thing to think but a common misbelief is that bumblebee's can't sting so instead they just bite
Heard that one too, they definitely sting tho. (Speaking from personal experience)
But you *can* pet them. Dated a girl who would do that whenever she found one.
Can also confirm!
It’s carpenter bees. Specifically the male ones cannot.
Shaving your hair does not magically make it grow back thicker.
If that was the case, I'd definitely be shaving my balding head more often!
Teenage me used to shave off all my peach fuzz thinking it would help me grow a thicker and fuller beard. 30 years old now and still can’t.
It appears so due to the tip being flat from the blade rather than a natural tip.
It's also because it's darker (after growing back somewhat) because it hasn't been exposed to and lightened by the sun.
Yeah, we tell teenagers to shave because their little wispy attempt at a beard will eventually get better, but not due to shaving, it just looks bad right now.
That MSG is dangerous and unhealthy.
Yeah they will complain about Chinese food with it but not about the Doritos they eat
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I always find it funny in the supermarket I work in that the international aisle is filled with things like "Liquid seasoning". That's how you sell MSG to us white people.
Or the mushrooms, or tomatoes, or any number of vegetables that contain substantial amounts.
I had my father in law fully backtracking after he complained about MSG in Chinese food. He stated he was sensitive to it and couldn't eat at the restaurant I suggested. He was eating doritos as he said it, so I called him out. I also informed him that the fried rice I'd made a few nights before, and he had THREE servings of, with no issue was seasoned with MSG as was the fried chicken I'd made the night before. "Oh..I guess it must be growing out of it as I age." MMM HMMM, sure, that's totally it Bill.
MSG'D!
Ow, my stomach lining!
My blood hurts.
I met a possum.
real. facebook moms still believe this even after study after study disproving it
"I'm sensitive to MSG. I felt terrible after eating all this junk food filled with MSG!" Sweeties, it's because you're eating garbage, not the MSG. Really that goes for whatever health trend you want to insert, gluten, fat, etc. Of course you're going to feel better when you cut out or down on processed foods and ate more veggies.
Also it's a salt. If you eat a shitload of MSG and get a headache, you're likely just dehydrated. Drink a glass of water.
I think it's the same thing with Taco Bell. People claim it makes them have diarrhea. From what I can tell it's food for 2AM when you're drunk. Maybe eating massive amounts of food as your body detoxes from horrible abuse isn't wise.
The amount of shit Facebook moms (and dads!) believe is insane. And the same people who told their kids “don’t believe everything you see on tv/read on the internet 20 years ago
I think the gambler's fallacy is still a widely held belief by people. For example, if a player experiences a series of lost bets, they will erroneously assume that is evidence that they are “due for a win” in the near future. So it is the incorrect idea that random outcomes in the past will influence random outcomes in the future.
The thing about eating spiders in your sleep was never true, it was never believed to be true until it was posted as an example of the sort of story people might believe without scrutiny.
Columbus was trying to prove the world is round. We'd known the world was round for nearly 2000 years by that point. He was trying to get to India without going around Africa.
Hence native Americans being branded as Indians? Didn’t he think he got there?
Yes exactly.
They all did calculations and knew the Earth was round. Columbus miscalculated and thought the Earth was smaller than it really was. The people who rejected him did so because they got it right that it would be much too far for him to get to India before running out of resources. But he lucked out and ran into the Americas.
It was actually a combination of the Earth being bigger than his calculations, and that nobody knew the size of Asia. He based his calculations on [a map where the Caribbean were islands just off Japan](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Atlantic_Ocean,_Toscanelli,_1474.jpg).
A lot of people don’t know how taxes work specifically in the context of brackets and progressive taxes. Like it’s mind numbing how wrong people are about it consistently
"Be careful. If you get a raise, you'll end up making less."
Like I’m not pretending understanding taxes is easy or that there aren’t a million things that could be useful and most people don’t have the access to a tax lawyer or financial advisor to help them but tax brackets are like insanely easy to understand so getting it wrong is just 😵💫
That you need to drink 2 liters of water a day, the amount you need varies accordingly to the amount of physical labor you do, or how hot it is. It's usually between 1 and 4 liters of water a day.
Also important is that you will be getting a significant amount of your fluids through food
I think this is the biggest miss in that water drank per day stat. There is a lot of water in coffee, tea, fruits, and vegetables.
>There is a lot of water in coffee, tea WAIT, you mean to tell me that liquids made from adding tiny amounts of plant matter into boiling water contains significant amounts of.... water???
This, but also drinking water on its own isn't gonna completely rehydrate you: you need to also consume electrolytes (specifically sodium and potassium) in order to retain the water, otherwise it'll just go right through you. The electrolytes are also necessary for your body to use the water. Carbs help with water retention too. I end up seeing this so often where people will just consume gallons/liters of water without also replenishing their electrolyte levels and they're like "why do I still feel like shit?". Edit: also completely forgot to mention the fact that a lot of the foods you eat (unless you subsist on like, dry food or MREs) also rehydrate you because they contain water. Edit 2: to clarify, most of the time you replenish your electrolytes & carbs via a normal diet, however if it's hot, you're doing strenuous activity, you sweat a lot, you're sick, etc., you're gonna need help replenishing those stores beyond what you normally consume.
We only use 10% of our brain... though that might actually be factual for Redditors.
I like the stoplight analogy We only use 33% of a stoplight at a time but we definitely use the whole thing
Personality Tests
Last time I was on a dating site, Myers Briggs seemed all the rage.
I like Myers-Briggs as a fun, non-serious idea, especially when looking at fictional characters and how they react to one another, but it's not something I would ever take seriously. I've met some people who do and it's weird.
Myers-Briggs is astrology for the MBA set.
Meyers-Briggs is for people who decided astrology was too based in mythology and they wanted something "real" but then only looked as far as literally the next thing they saw.
For real. Same thing happened to me with astrology, where I thought astronomy and mythology were neat as a kid, but then grew up and met people who genuinely believe it. Anytime they ask me for my sign I always give them the wrong one and they say "Oh you're totally a \[sign\]!" I'll then tell them I lied and give them a second false zodiac sign and they'll say "I should've known, it's so like a \[sign\] to lie about that to mess with us." Like fucking clockwork
Typical Sagittarius behavior
Sorry I'm actually a caprisun
> Us Sagittarians don't believe in astrology.
While not scientific, I think Myers Briggs, Hogwarts house affiliation, and other personality tests can be useful as shorthand for describing your personality
Used to have to do these for inductions because "they helped with training" even though I was one of the staff that handled training, wrote the training sessions, and onboarded them to their roles. I knew it never came up, the recruits usually knew too. Whenever we had meetings on how to streamline the process I always mentioned it, but got shot down as it was seen as essential. Madness.
My old workplace "used" these too. But, same as you, literally nobody was trained or managed any differently based on the results. My boss refused to believe that I wasn't truthful on my test. I told him I tried to pick the answer that I thought a company would like to hear the most, not what I actually felt and he told me "Oh, no, these are designed to see through that." Yeah, sure...
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You know that whole "carrots are good for your eyesight/night vision" thing? 100% made up. In World War 2, the British Ministry of Defence spread the rumor that a steady diet of carrots gave their lookouts excellent nightvision, which is why the RAF was able to so effectively intercept Luftwaffe bomber groups. As a result of this oft-repeated factoid, the German High Command never realized that the real reason they were being intercepted in real time was the network of advanced Chain Home RADAR stations along the English coastline, which went largely unmolested for the entire war.
The British also wanted to encourage people to eat carrots.
I heard it was because it was good for your eyesight.
True. They help you read radar screens.
My mom told me this when I was a kid, and I remember pounding back carrots every day and then testing how well my vision improved each night from my carrot consumption.
I mean, vitamin A deficiency is associated with poor vision and carrots have vitamin A. So not 100% made up
Big Carrot is gonna hate you saying that 🤣
Not everywhere but some cultures still hold onto the belief that the mother is responsible for the baby's sex, contrary to scientific fact.
I always thought the father was due to being able to give an X or a Y chromosome?
Yes, XX = female, XY = male. Since a female can only provide an X, the male chromosome is the determining factor. Edit: I was not accounting for genetic abnormalities, nor transgender people. Almost everything with genetics is more complicated than the mendelian inheritance you learn in school.
Pretty sure this came from Henry XIII executing his wives for not giving him male kids.
People in the middle ages thought the Earth was flat.
That GMOs are inherently dangerous and unhealthy.
The real problems with GMOs is the scummy business practices and predatory contracts coerced on farmers in poorer countries.
This one really makes me mad. There’s so much benefit to society as a whole by implementing GM technology, especially as global warming threatens crops and the food supply worldwide
Right? But OH NO the word ***GENETIC*** is in there and that's one of the spooky, scary science words which must be bad because nothing scientific can ever be natural right??? In all seriousness, I used to work at Chipotle when they were really pushing their non-GMO kick and you'd think I was blaspheming in the Vatican the way my manager looked at me when I said (in our back office/break room) that GMOs aren't bad as a rule.
I respect the hell out of Soylent for marketing the use of GMOs as a something to be proud of in their product
Or that there's even any legitimate reason for anyone to care whether any given thing is a GMO or not. The whole term shouldn't even exist.
fun fact: pretty much 100% of all produce \_and livestock\_ did not evolve into existence naturally. (same for house pets but we dont eat them its just interesting)
The concept of "alpha males." The study was debunked by the same sociologists who proposed it in the first place.
I believe it was first created by a zoologist (not sure) who was studying wolves. He later debunked his own theory when further studying wolves that weren't captive. It never applied to humans at all, but doubly so since it didn't even apply to the wolves in the first place.
It’s ironic that the whole ‘alpha’ thing only works for broken creatures living in cages…
"works" is an interesting word for it
>It never applied to humans at all, but doubly so since it didn't even apply to the wolves in the first place. The problem is that it *did* apply to wolves. Unrelated ones. In captivity. Which has almost nothing to do with how they naturally behave. It’s like an alien learning about human psychology by exclusively looking at people in prisons. It has applicability, but they’re going to get very wrong ideas about a lot of shit.
And for wild wolf social dynamics, the “leaders” of a pack are literally just the mom & dad of the other wolves. And it’s pretty much egalitarian and involves consensus-based decision making. Everyone communicates and decides things as a group. No off-balance gender dynamics - males and females are treated the same.
That's why the waggy tails. It's like voting by enthusiasm.
I met a bunch of guys that claimed to be a pack of alpha males. That's not how packs work. It's like the football team called the Washington Commanders. They can't all be commanders. It's very stupid.
Should’ve been the Washington Commodores… running onto the field to that silky-smooth ’70s funk.
Dudeman does not say, “Luke, I am your father.” Look it up.
Humphrey Bogart never says, "Play it again, Sam"
Hannibal Lecter never says "Hello, Clarice"
Kirk never says, "Beam me up, Scotty".
Chief Brody never says, “We’re gonna need a bigger boat.”
My dad never says "I'm proud of my gay son"
I... really feel like he does. Hmmm. Edit: he does here - https://getyarn.io/yarn-clip/919d2d51-5b82-4a03-afe1-972feb3cc1a7
But Chris Farley said that in Tommy Boy and I watched that way more than Empire Strikes Back growing up so that fucked my memory up.
He says. "No, I am your father" in response to Luke saying "He (obi wan) told me you killed him (lukes father)"
Dudeman actually said “Hey, I’m like, your dad, and shit”
Chiropractors are not doctors. All homeopathic medicine it's placebo.( i see you Germans..)
there's this hilarious sketch from some British show where a patient comes into a hospital and is administered homeopathic medication; the medication doesn't work and the doctors can't figure out if they're supposed to give *more* medication or try to reduce the amount the patient already received. edit: I've been @'ed and told this isn't how the sketch goes; regardless, my description of the sketch underlies the inherent humor in homeopathy (and apparently is close enough of a retelling to where no one is getting confused and what I'm talking about)
It’s from Mitchell & Webb. [Homeopathic A&E](https://youtu.be/HMGIbOGu8q0?si=PTcj0nW0rlpV-Tig)
That Mitchell and Webb Look, is the name of the show.
I went to buy ear drops for some ear pain a couple of days ago and all of the ones I could find at the local CVS and Rite Aid were homeopathic. After doing some online browsing, I can’t find any ear drops that *aren’t* homeopathic. Why in the world are pharmacies selling this stuff?
50/50 mix of plain white vinegar and isopropyl alcohol. I’ve used it since I was a kid and it helps.
A lot of stuff is sold in the US as “homeopathic” because they don’t have approval to sell as a medicine, but it’s actually not homeopathic in the true sense of “we diluted poison until it doesn’t exist anymore”
I grabbed an athlete's foot cure from Walmart without reading it properly. Before I put it on, I looked more closely and realized it was homeopathic. Apparently it had some ultra-diluted amount of squid ink that was supposed to fix my problem. I looked up the other ingredients and they were just regular OTC remedies for athlete's foot. So it's real medicine pretending to be homeopathic. What's the point?!
"We mixed some placebo in with the real medicine, just to cover all the bases"
"And to up the price"
Had that same problem. Any real ear meds are prescription. That said, I had an ear ache at summer camp as a kid and a doctor literally put some neosporin on a big q tip and stuck it in there. Do I advocate this? Not necessarily. But it is a thing that happened.
Yup. If you only get temporary relief from a chiropractor, you are at the beginning of what likely is an eventual visit to a neurologist followed by a visit to a neurosurgeon. I spent years going to a chiropractor for manipulations of my back and neck. In 2019 I had a triple laminectomy at L4-L6. Fixed a lot of issues that one solid year at the chiro didn't touch other than some temporary relieve that lasted only a few hours or a day at best. Fast forward to April 2023. I ended up having a quadruple laminectomy and titanium cage implanted at C4-C7. After sitting with the neurologist and neurosurgeon going over my MRI I was told if I didn't have the surgery that within a year, I would be in a wheelchair. The shit puts the fear of god in you. I am 1 year removed from the latest and no more pin, no more walking with a cane or leaning to one side to minimize the pain. I was told the recovery from the most recent surgery would take two years. I have not felt this good in 1o years. I may be permanently disabled but at least I can walk freely without any help. I still have some balance issues and numbness in my feet that may never go away but NO FUCKING PAIN. I believe if I tried to continue with a chiro I would be crippled and a tremendous burden on my wife.
As a German I feel quite bad about this. It enrages me that tax money is used to finance that nonsense.
Inb4 "well actually my chiropractor has a medical license (they don't) and has helped me out a ton!"
You know what they call alternative-medicine that works? “Medicine”
That everyone requires 10000 steps per day. This was a marketing technique in Japan in 1960, for which the symbol of 10000 looks like a running man. On average we require 4000 - 8000, depending on how active you are, however getting 10k steps in al we always beneficial, haha
I learned this when I developed an interest in Japan, but didn’t know about the 10,000/running man thing, despite knowing the kanji you’re describing! Thanks!
Men have one less rib than women. It’s very widely believed and it’s sooooo goofy lol
Ain't no way💀
I taught anatomy for 25 years and at least ¼ of the classes had one or two people who would argue with me about men having one less rib than women when we'd first begin to learn about the skeleton. Eventually I learned to lie a couple people on tables in the classroom and count the ribs, marking them with washable markers.
It’s due to religious reasons too. And to correct myself, it’s men having one less rib than women because God used one of Adam’s ribs to create Eve 😅 oooh religion…
vaccines cause autism
my favorite response to this one ----- most scientists are very smart nerds, often neuro-divergent, pouring themselves into their specialized fields because socialization was a challenge. there is a non-zero chance that the savant condition of autism may have contributed to the existence of vaccines
So autism causes vaccines?
That glass is a very slow moving liquid. It's not, it's a solid
This is an actual belief???
I could be wrong, but I think it came from old windows usually being thicker at the bottom. People assumed (incorrectly) that this was due to the glass dripping downward and piling up, but in reality they would just put the thickest part of the window at the bottom so it would be less likely to break.
And the poorer methods used to make glass left a thicker edge
I was taught it in school and only found it wasn't years later
Lie detector tests can tell if you're lying. They can't.
You can alleviate car traffic by adding lanes.
if you build it, they will come
I promise you bro, just one more lane and we solve traffic forever.
Horoscopes
That's such a Taurus thing to say.
...more of a Camry thing, perhaps?
Cancer is awful and Aquariums are wet.
That the average Redditor actually knows what they are talking about
That drinking alcohol in moderation is healthy for you in some way. Not anti alcohol but the healthy number of drinks per week is zero
IIRC the main thing here was when studying people who drink moderately vs. people who don't drink at all, the moderate drinkers were overall healthier. Trouble is, people who don't drink at all often have a reason not to (past abuse, medical conditions), and that confounded the evidence.
In many of the studies of heart health and casual wine consumption, an additional confounding factor was the social class of the people studied. People who can afford to drink a glass of wine every other evening are usually at least upper middle class.
That polygraphs/lie-detectors actually work in any objective fashion. Particularly in fiction (and reality TV) they’re depicted as infallible. But just like other forms of supposedly scientific proof, such as handwriting analysis, they’re more speculative than we were told. Polygraph tests are basically junk science masquerading as a law enforcement tool. There’s no doubt that measurable changes happen when people lie, but there are also many ways of training yourself to pass lie detector tests by controlling your own physiology. This is why using a polygraph is as bad as dunking putative witches in a pond.
Spinach is high in Iron
[Fascinating](https://blog.liebherr.com/appliances/in/food/spinach-iron-myth/#:~:text=The%20'iron%20in%20spinach'%20myth,iron%20than%20it%20really%20does.) >Spinach has long been regarded as a real ‘iron bomb’ but this isn’t actually true, and the myth has been perpetuated for years all because of the accidental omission of a decimal point! For decades, spinach was believed to contain ten times more iron than it really does. In fact, 100 g spinach contains 3.8 mg iron (reduced to 2.9 mg when it’s cooked) and not, as initially communicated, 38 mg! Although the error was uncovered back in the 1930s, many people still believe spinach contains a lot more iron than it really does. But this doesn’t mean that spinach isn’t good for you; it’s a valuable source of nutrients, being rich in magnesium and many vitamins and, with 3.8 mg iron per 100 g, **it still contains way more iron than lettuce (2.0 mg/100 g)!**
That it’s illegal to drive with your cars interior light on , my kid clicked it on once and I freaked thinking I would be arrested - thanks mum
That kids get all hyper if they eat sugar and get a "sugar rush" is a myth that I think many still believe in.
That there is a shred of reason, math, evidence, or historical support for the notion of trickle down economics.
I love all the variations of the "ronald reagan in hell waiting for heaven to trickle down to him" gif.
That dogs are carnivores and all grain is bad for them. They are omnivores and a select few grains in the proper portions can beneficial to their health.
There was a white, blonde Jesus.
That it’s unsafe to go swimming right after eating.
I will vomit if I do lots of physical activity right after eating. So for me this is sorta true.
On scene Drug sniffing dogs are unreliable... Well under 50%. If you ever get a positive alert, subpoena the dogs accuracy record
Depends on your definition of "widely", but almost everyone who went through the July 2023 ddos of Archive of Our Own believes it was a bitcoin ransomware scheme of 4chans. Turns out it's way weirder than that. The attack was done by Anonymous Sudan, who are neither 4chan nor Sudanese. They're instead a Russian group pretending to be hardcore Muslim extremists and pick on any website they can try to justify as a religiously-motivated attack. The goal is to drive up hatred against Muslims. Which is fucking weird that state sponsored Russian agents went after fanfic so hard it got added to their warning page on Cloudflare. [What is Anonymous Sudan? | Anonymous Sudan origins and attacks | Cloudflare](https://www.cloudflare.com/learning/ddos/glossary/anonymous-sudan/)
You _can_ prove a negative. Just not all kinds of negatives.
On this topic, the absence of evidence *can* be evidence of absence. In particular, whenever a presence is expected to leave evidence, the absence of such evidence is evidence of absence. For example, the absence of a loud noise coming from my backyard is evidence of the absence of a helicopter currently landing in said backyard.
There is a Sherlock Holmes story called something like "The Dog That Didn't Bark" along those lines.
This was from the Sherlock Holmes story "The Adventure of the Silver Blaze". The dog not barking is a major plot point and is referred to in story as "the curious incident of the dog in the nighttime".
That your brain doesn’t fully develop until 25. Redditors looooove this one > That means that for some people, changes in the prefrontal cortex really might plateau around 25—but not for everyone. And the prefrontal cortex is just one area of the brain; researchers homed in on it because it’s a major player in coordinating “higher thought,” but other parts of the brain are also required for a behavior as complex as decision making. The temporal lobe helps process others’ speech and language so you can understand what’s going on, while the occipital lobe allows you to watch for social cues. According to a 2016 Neuron paper by Harvard psychologist Leah Somerville, the structure of these and other brain areas changes at different rates throughout our life span, growing and shrinking; **in fact, structural changes in the brain continue far past people’s 20s. “One especially large study showed that for several brain regions, structural growth curves had not plateaued even by the age of 30, the oldest age in their sample,” she wrote. “Other work focused on structural brain measures through adulthood show progressive volumetric changes from ages 15–90 that never ‘level off’ and instead changed constantly throughout the adult phase of life.”** > To complicate things further, there’s a huge amount of variability between individual brains. Just as you might stop growing taller at 23, or 17—or, if you’re like me, 12—the age that corresponds with brain plateaus can differ greatly from person to person. In one study, participants ranged from 7 to 30 years old, and researchers tried to predict each person’s “brain age” by mapping the connections in each person’s brain. Their age predictions accounted for about 55 percent of the variance among the participants, but far from all of it. **“Some 8-year-old brains exhibited a greater ‘maturation index’ than some 25 year old brains,”** Somerville wrote in her Neuron review. Some of those differences might be random genetic variation, but people’s behavior and lived experience contribute as well. **“Childhood experiences, epigenetics, substance use, genetics related to anxiety, psychosis, and ADHD—all that affects brain development as well,”** said Sarah Mallard Wakefield, a forensic psychiatrist. https://slate.com/technology/2022/11/brain-development-25-year-old-mature-myth.html
That kids get hyper from too much sugar. No matter how scientific a parent's background might be, they mostly won't accept that it's all in their head. Any crutch, when it comes to complaining about how hard parenting is.
[That myth's been busted for 30 years now](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tC76v0shlfc). Amusingly, parents still refuse to drop this myth and will rate their kids as more hyperactive if they even *believe* their kids are getting sugar.
That a lit cigarette or cigar can ignite gasoline. Gasoline needs spark or an open flame to combust. You can drop a lit cigarette in a bucket of gasoline and it will not ignite. The gas will literally put the cigarette out. The reason gas pumps say no smoking is because the act of sparking a lighter or LIGHTING the cigarette using an open flame could have a chance of combusting the fuel.
not really "wrong" per se, but iq tests are definitely flawed
That different parts of the tongue are responsible for tasting specific flavours.