50% of college studends think we see like superman

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9 points·j_baker··6 comments

Next they'll be telling us they don't proofread their title submissions, un-freaking-believable ;0)

PDF link to the important paper, http://pbr.psychonomic-journals.org/content/8/3/622.full.pdf "The persistence of a misconception about vision after educational interventions" by Gregg, et al..

[Mind you Gregg's table 1 has an error too - "reference" should read "refutation" as in the first para on the right column of p.624.]

Now I've a question to ask my 4 year old in the morning!

Would be very interesting to read of results from other cultures, I couldn't see the info in the citation but assume the subjects were local to Ohio. Is extramission belief more prevalent in USA?

What about other unexpected scientific truths like where the mass of wood in trees comes from (most say nutrients in the soil apparently).

I really do try not to ask but... why the downvotes. I linked the paper. Noted an error or two jovially and discussed the need for further research.

Certainly useful. Succinct, enquiring, on topic. I'm at a loss on this one. Oh well.

Sigh.... the sad thing is I did proofread that. :-)

Happens to us all!

People have the same kind of misconception about GPS. Lots of people think a GPS receiver sends signals up to satellites so the satellites can know where it is. [sigh]

This could work [impractically] though.

Whilst extramission of rays from the eye appears to be impossible (outside of things like cosmic ray interactions).

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