• Björn@swg-empire.de
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    10 days ago

    We had to write angry letters to our children’s school about 5 years ago to get them to stop teaching taste regions. It’s really baffling.

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      10 days ago

      I remember being like 7 and trying that out for myself by touching a lemon slice to different parts of my tongue. I think when I realised that it tasted sour regardless of where on my tongue I touched it to was when I first started questioning authority.

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        10 days ago

        I remember many kids in my schooldays saying the same and being gaslit by the teacher into thinking they tested incorrectly.

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          10 days ago

          Yes! The tongue taste zones experiment was my introduction to gaslighting. I guess I’m thankful for that.

      • 14th_cylon@lemmy.zip
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        10 days ago

        at similar age, a teacher told me there can’t be polygon bigger than 360-gon, because that would be a circle. i wasn’t of course in a place to fight with her, i just thought “wtf, how dumb is this bitch?”