It’s a chronic lack of inquisitiveness. Most people just aren’t very interested in anything unless it directly negatively impinges on them. Like “why isn’t the toilet flushing?”. Then they turn to the interwebs for the answer, good, bad or indifferent.
So Much Information Everywhere, Yet..
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It is scary the changes in kids coming up even in the last 10 years. Less and less of them are inquisitive, motivated, and engaged in anything beyond a narrow bandwidth of interest.
When I was a kid. my father bought me a set of encyclopedias. World Book. Read the whole set few times. If I had a question about something, I searched for the answer in those books. If that didn't cure my curiosity, I would go to a library. I would have some idea about a topic before bugging the teachers. Seemed like a logical thing to do. Now with the Internet, there are so much to read about so many different things. It's like a freaking paradise. There are even free books. Free Information. I guess different strokes for different people.
Absolutely.
My mother always told me that I was kinda curious.
We had Funk & Wagnell and later Britannica that had the anatomy books as well as world maps. I leaned more from them than I did in school.
Yeah trust the internet. It's never gonna steer you wrong. Still don't why I was led to a website full of naked chick's wearing cat ears when I searched Google about cat ears. But it was educational in the wrong way.
Maybe it's more of asking the correct actions. Like how the local police found a 18 year old run away female in my county living with a man who had past jail time for making child born.
And they found the missing runaway, illegally possessed firearms, and more child porn. But did not charge the guy for having child porn.
Maybe it's more of asking the correct actions. Like how the local police found a 18 year old run away female in my county living with a man who had past jail time for making child born.
And they found the missing runaway, illegally possessed firearms, and more child porn. But did not charge the guy for having child porn.
I often get asked why I don’t socialize. I reply, People are why I don’t socialize
Since almost everything is seemingly available at the drop of a few keystrokes, the effortlessness of it breeds indifference. There’s no work involved, little thought, little engagement. People become intellectually lazy receptacles for whatever information comes their way.
On the flip side, sharing information has never been easier. All sorts of information gets spread all over the planet, a constant bombardment of anonymous information, much of it pure and unadulterated CRAP. People are under an incessant barrage of untrustworthy information, more than they can handle.
No wonder they are tuning out.
Everybody is cowed in todays world, no one wants to take ownership of problems let alone apply critical thinking to solve them.
You’re assuming that critical thinking is widespread. The studies I’ve looked at indicate 1 to 4% of the population practices it.
Heh, that's higher than I expected, based on personal experience...
But yes, I have complained about this subject (the dumb questions I mean) several times, it's not just here but everywhere.
And while it's always been a thing, it has gotten exponentially worse over the last 5-10 years, and I think diminishing social skills also plays a small part in it, not just the lack of thinking.
Hell, 22 years ago when I was in AP calculus in high school, I was floored at how dumb everyone was. Like, this was supposed to be advanced track math and it took 2 weeks to go over the first night's homework, which was just a review of algebra and the most basic parts of trig. Like how did they even get in the class?
And so often teachers have to teach to the test rather than teach understanding. Like, as an example, kids today just memorize and are taught area of a triangle is 1/2 • base • height but not why that is (because area of a rectangle is base • height and any triangle can be duplicated and rotated on itself to be a rectangle or parallelogram, so if all triangles are half of a rectangle, then their area formula is half that of the formula for a rectangle).
They're no longer forced to think, they're just given answers or given a formula, and they have no ability to extrapolate, and lock up when things aren't exactly/explicitly "by the book". They don't understand the real world is messy and you need wiggle room.
It's a lot of confluent factors involved.
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I believe we are all, at one time or another, victims of our own Conformation Bias. Look it up.
I believe many people are looking for informed opinions, so they can form their own opinion.
An internet query doesn't necessarily give opinions....informed or not.
Questions for opinions I get. But I also get the annoyance of fact based questions.
In my experience, about 95% of questions asked online are for opinions. Usually from like minded people.
The other day my brother sent me a message asking where the transmission speed sensor on his Bronco was, and how to replace it.
I sent him 4 youtube videos showing how to do this. Then I told him he could have just looked himself.
He replied with, "but then I wouldn't have got my little brothers smart ass reply."
On a side note.....
He won't fix it himself.
He will absolutely bring it to Ford!
It can only be reached by the tiny handed elves that work at a dealership.
If we didnt live 2500 miles apart, id be up to my elbows in Bronco transmission right now.
An internet query doesn't necessarily give opinions....informed or not.
Questions for opinions I get. But I also get the annoyance of fact based questions.
In my experience, about 95% of questions asked online are for opinions. Usually from like minded people.
The other day my brother sent me a message asking where the transmission speed sensor on his Bronco was, and how to replace it.
I sent him 4 youtube videos showing how to do this. Then I told him he could have just looked himself.
He replied with, "but then I wouldn't have got my little brothers smart ass reply."
On a side note.....
He won't fix it himself.
He will absolutely bring it to Ford!
It can only be reached by the tiny handed elves that work at a dealership.
If we didnt live 2500 miles apart, id be up to my elbows in Bronco transmission right now.
Research is something you really love doing or really hate doing. Thinking is something you really love doing or really hate doing. I tend to avoid being spoon fed anwsers. I rather,research, hear conflicting views and in the case of a statistical survey look at the math. How many, how they were chosen, how long is the survey in the number of years, probability of confounding variables, ect. Just me.
That's what ai is for.....
Most teachers can't even teach their own subjects for decades
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