One of my idiot students...
October 9, 2013 at 11:45 pm
(This post was last modified: October 9, 2013 at 11:46 pm by Bad Writer.)
A little anecdote from today:
Somehow my class of Air Force students ended up on a tangent about science, which would be awesome if some of these young tards weren't so damn ignorant. Luckily, since I'm the instructor, my words carry a small amount of weight to these guys.
A student began by claiming that science had proven a link between people who watch porn and those who commit sexual assault. I calmly asked if this was an actual science study, or if it was merely a correlation found when compiling certain statistics. He admitted that it was more likely the latter. I then further impressed upon him that science would most likely not concern itself with proving such a thing, as science actually deals with testing hypotheses as opposed to proving them, as mathematics is more apt to do. Again, he conceded the point.
After which he totally forgot what he had just conceded when he blurted out, "Well, at Leary science still hasn't proven evolution or global warming." The class became a little tense at this comment that has just come from nowhere, but I calmly countered the claim again. I reminded him that we had just agreed that science didn't deal with such proof, but that the point, for instance, on proving evolution was moot anyway since it was actually a demonstrable and observable fact.
The rest of the class applauded the rebuttal, after which I segued into the next lesson, dropping the issue entirely before the idiot student could come up with something to try and stump teacher. I usually don't revel in putting a student on the spot, but this jackass had it coming. I especially liked that that the other students, last I saw, were still ribbing him on the subject.
Somehow my class of Air Force students ended up on a tangent about science, which would be awesome if some of these young tards weren't so damn ignorant. Luckily, since I'm the instructor, my words carry a small amount of weight to these guys.
A student began by claiming that science had proven a link between people who watch porn and those who commit sexual assault. I calmly asked if this was an actual science study, or if it was merely a correlation found when compiling certain statistics. He admitted that it was more likely the latter. I then further impressed upon him that science would most likely not concern itself with proving such a thing, as science actually deals with testing hypotheses as opposed to proving them, as mathematics is more apt to do. Again, he conceded the point.
After which he totally forgot what he had just conceded when he blurted out, "Well, at Leary science still hasn't proven evolution or global warming." The class became a little tense at this comment that has just come from nowhere, but I calmly countered the claim again. I reminded him that we had just agreed that science didn't deal with such proof, but that the point, for instance, on proving evolution was moot anyway since it was actually a demonstrable and observable fact.
The rest of the class applauded the rebuttal, after which I segued into the next lesson, dropping the issue entirely before the idiot student could come up with something to try and stump teacher. I usually don't revel in putting a student on the spot, but this jackass had it coming. I especially liked that that the other students, last I saw, were still ribbing him on the subject.
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