Bonus #106 - American Kids Don't Know Where Bacon Comes From? (Extra Dose)
Added 2022-01-25 17:00:08 +0000 UTCVIDEO LINK: https://youtu.be/TuulTuZCQ-Y
It's Bonus Video day! Today's topic comes to us from the "where'd they get the grant money for this?" department, as we look at a somewhat dubious study that gives us the chance to have a little fun at both the education system's expense and the scientific research system's expense. And of course, I'd like to point out to my American friends that, yes, I fully believe Canadian kids would have fared just as poorly. Anyway, on with the show:
A recent study showed that American kids are completely oblivious to the concepts of "meat" and "vegetables", not knowing that when "the cow says moo", it only says it one more time before it's turned into hamburger. Buckley looks at the study and wonders if the researchers are any smarter than the kids they spoke to.
Comments
I absolutely cannot explain how this paper got through the peer review process, some reviewer must have said it was not a statistically representative survey.
Thor Stone
2022-01-26 21:22:58 +0000 UTCMy husbands grandfather slaughtered a cow infront of him and his brother at that age, then had them help process the meat. Its a valuable lesson on reality. Neither of them stopped eating meat, but they do appreciate it.
Valerie B.
2022-01-26 20:02:10 +0000 UTCAge 4 conversation: Grammy, do you remember me? I have a cat, she is black, her name is Pepper. Age 7 conversation (I taught second grade) Me: asks question about book. 7 y. o. Raises hand My mom said I could get a cat this weekend. People forget that it takes a long time to learn everything. And what little kids are like.
Fiz Gig
2022-01-26 05:32:44 +0000 UTCIt's pretty disappointing to see Elsevier posting such a crappy paper. I use them a lot in my own university research (granted that's Forensic Science, not this topic). That paper is so leading, biased and just piss poor research. I don't really understand how it was allowed to slip through the cracks. What they described isn't so much of a 'study' in traditional terms, the sample is too shit to even be representative. Its anecdotal evidence worth noting maybe in a fully fleshed out properly researched paper.
Emily Barker
2022-01-26 01:58:34 +0000 UTCAmazing plot twist - we teach these kids that animals are slaughtered for food and they decide “fuck it, they’re too delicious to not eat”.
Ash Archer
2022-01-26 01:07:41 +0000 UTCI like that they put two decimals for each of the percentages as if that's their precision. For the record: when they say "5.68%" of the kids could identify an orange but only "5.11%" a cat, what they mean is ten kids, and nine of them, respectively.
Pim
2022-01-25 18:19:59 +0000 UTC
