tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8611810694571930415.post8849823345796050913..comments2024-03-28T06:43:21.546-04:00Comments on the daily howler: A SIMPLE CONCEPT: There's "no better description of relativity!"<b>bob somerby</b>http://www.blogger.com/profile/02963464534685954436noreply@blogger.comBlogger15125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8611810694571930415.post-66619918818980915462021-09-09T03:17:46.241-04:002021-09-09T03:17:46.241-04:00Your place is valueble for me. Thanks!
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Dr Believe truly you are the best, all thanks to you forever<br />Nitish Kumarhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17635701932421156767noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8611810694571930415.post-15116575726362737972021-07-28T17:43:38.189-04:002021-07-28T17:43:38.189-04:00Somerby has been relentless in his attacks on expe...Somerby has been relentless in his attacks on expertise, professors, authors and even school districts (with their concern for science magnet schools). Is this in support of the conservative focus on a less educated base? This article suggests that the conservative attack on knowledge is deliberate (from Colorado Newsline):<br /><br />"Twenty-five years ago Republicans were more educated than Democrats.<br /><br />Today, the inverse is true.<br /><br />The education gap is readily apparent. Facts have become partisan, and Republicans have tossed whole science books out the window. It’s a strategy that appears ill-considered at first glance — after all, what good is letting a virus ransack your base?<br /><br />But what if it’s not unintended, and Republicans are merely catering to a long-term dwindling literacy rate?<br /><br />GET THE MORNING HEADLINES DELIVERED TO YOUR INBOX<br /><br />SUBSCRIBE<br />According to the U.S. Department of Education, 54% of Americans ages 16 to 74 now rank below a sixth grade reading level. The youngest generations are showing further declines, and numeracy scores are similarly dismal. If America continues at this pace, and power is your only goal, solidifying your base among the poorly educated might actually make a lot of sense — consequences be damned.<br /><br />Certainly, the practiced con man and former President Donald Trump knew exactly who he was targeting. He didn’t even try to hide it, at one point outright exclaiming, “I love the poorly educated.” Scholars also noted he consistently spoke below a sixth grade level — a sharp contrast to his predecessor and the lowest of all presidents to date.<br /><br />Whether intentional or not, studies show that lower-educated people are more susceptible to conspiracy theories, and they also score consistently lower on critical thinking tests. This makes presenting basic facts and concepts such as COVID-19 or climate change inherently more difficult (ahem, Democrats) and opens the door for a simpler, more appealing message. For example, if people don’t want to wear a mask to begin with — and most don’t — rather than explain viral transmission, you can simply convince people it’s a hoax, giving them a reason not to do the thing they didn’t want to do in the first place. <br /><br />Is it any wonder, then, that conspiracy theories and the unqualified elected officials who push them — such as Colorado’s high school dropout Rep. Lauren Boebert — are on the rise? Coupled with the years-long Republican attacks on the Department of Education and the free press, one has to question if an uneducated population is exactly what the GOP is striving for."Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8611810694571930415.post-22808247431760979952021-07-28T17:33:26.741-04:002021-07-28T17:33:26.741-04:00Here is some real media criticism, unlike the nons...Here is some real media criticism, unlike the nonsense that Somerby writes here:<br /><br />https://digbysblog.net/2021/07/for-the-sake-of-democracy-its-now-or-never/Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8611810694571930415.post-89038566735559575152021-07-28T16:42:56.416-04:002021-07-28T16:42:56.416-04:00What hinges on Somerby's understanding of a bo...What hinges on Somerby's understanding of a book about Einstein's theory? Nothing whatsoever. So why was this worth 13 years of "struggle"? <br /><br />If were reading a book that I did not understand, or one that I wasn't enjoying, I would abandon it and go on to another book -- there is always another book to read. I do not see why Somerby is so hung up on this. Hung up enough to want to assign blame to others. This is one of the weirdest phenomena I've encounted on the internet, a place where there are a lot of obsessed people.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8611810694571930415.post-87375943894592388662021-07-28T15:51:02.715-04:002021-07-28T15:51:02.715-04:00It seems to me that when students waste time worry...It seems to me that when students waste time worrying about whether material is going to be easy or hard, they are wasting mental energy that is better devoted to digging into the material.<br /><br />A book is different than classroom learning because there is typically no one around to ask questions of, but that doesn't mean Somerby is limited to Isaacson's exposition. If there is no description of relativity that Somerby can understand, he really needs to consider whether this is his problem. Then, he has the choice of finding a tutor, giving up on it, or taking an online physics course (there are many available) so he can acquire the needed background.<br /><br />I doubt Somerby really cares about relativity or physics at all. His motives seem to be to make himself feel better about his lack of understanding by denigrating the authors (including Einstein and Hawking) and also to make himself feel better to questioning the whole idea that anyone has any expertise in anything -- others may ALL be frauds and cons. And why might he be so intent on doing that? Was the narcissistic insult of his college days so traumatic that he is still upset in his twilight years? It can happen. Look at Donald Trump. And a man who chooses to become a standup comedian is perhaps just as narcissistic. It seems clear that even teaching black 5th grade children two grade levels behind in their studies was insufficient to restore Somerby's sense of mental superiority.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8611810694571930415.post-31785244191473283012021-07-28T15:37:11.330-04:002021-07-28T15:37:11.330-04:00"Is the general reader likely to understand t..."Is the general reader likely to understand the opening pages of Chapter Six?"<br /><br />If someone wanted to understand relativity, would they read a biography about Einstein, or would they be more likely to read a text about the theory itself, perhaps one that introduced more physics concepts and used an entire book to lay a foundation for Einstein's work? A biography is about how a man came to do the things he did in his life. It is not about those things themselves, but about the person who did them. It would be misguided for someone to read Isaacson's biography of Einstein to understand his theory. The book is about the man, not his theories.<br /><br />Somerby, of course, knows nothing about history or psychology and thus cannot critique how well Isaacson has done in presenting the man. I find myself wondering whether Somerby would be able to grasp that biography of a scientist, having no background in science himself, lacking Einstein's creativity and imagination, and possessing an excessively literal approach to language and an inability to process metaphors. I think he would be as handicapped in that endeavor as he is in understanding relativity via metaphor.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8611810694571930415.post-46151428555833525432021-07-28T15:34:12.646-04:002021-07-28T15:34:12.646-04:00Everything is relative, dear Bob.
Yes, everything...Everything is relative, dear Bob.<br /><br />Yes, everything -- except for the incredible, unimaginable talent of Hunter of Biden, Inc. <br /><br />Forget Einstein, dear Bob, forget that loser. Hunter of Biden, Inc.! His painting are so out of this world beautiful! <br /><br />Yay, yay, yay, dear Bob! Wow, wow, wow! OMG! Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8611810694571930415.post-33359376557359926672021-07-28T15:30:06.773-04:002021-07-28T15:30:06.773-04:00"the book whose lucidity was vouched for by E..."the book whose lucidity was vouched for by Einstein's awestruck teen-aged niece."<br /><br />Yes, let's blame the women.<br /><br />Somerby wasn't there and he has no idea what Einstein's niece did or didn't say to Einstein about his book. She may even have understood it well, considering that Einstein's wife was a physics student and girls were permitted to study physics in that time period and brains, imagination and creativity, may have some slight genetic component. Why should we assume that she was stupid and overawed, instead of argumentative but not as stubborn as Einstein was about not changing parts of his book that he considered sufficiently clear? She may even have helped Einstein improve his wording, but not sufficiently to overcome Somerby's obtuseness. Somerby doesn't know.<br /><br />And whereas he is willing to allow for doubt when it comes to how many people understand Isaacson's paragraphs, he admits no doubt about the stupidity of Einstein's niece. She is dumb as rocks to Somerby and Somerby cannot conceive of a woman reading Einstein's work and finding it clear, because he himself cannot understand it. And he is secure in the belief that no woman can ever be smarter than himself, so it never enters his mind that perhaps Einstein's niece was right about the clarity of the book. Because that's how misogynists roll.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8611810694571930415.post-43988982558248374402021-07-28T15:24:52.832-04:002021-07-28T15:24:52.832-04:00"Will the general reader be able to explain t..."Will the general reader be able to explain that ringing endorsement? You'd have to question the general reader, but we'll guess that he or she would have a hard time expounding on that statement."<br /><br />How many general readers would have to expound in order for Somerby to accept that Isaacson and Gallileo have done a reasonable job explaining the relativity of motion? Somerby never says. Presumably, if there were one other moron (along with himself) that would be enough for him to continue to assert that physics is hard and books shouldn't be written about it.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8611810694571930415.post-46640980762305882232021-07-28T15:20:54.651-04:002021-07-28T15:20:54.651-04:00"Back in 1632, would that presentation by Gal..."Back in 1632, would that presentation by Galileo have convinced the skeptics that their argument was flawed? Maybe yes and maybe no. "<br /><br />How does one refute a person who answers his own question by saying maybe yes and maybe no? This is how Somerby rolls, rarely stating his own conclusion. <br /><br />Newton proposed similarly revolutionary ideas in the same time period, using empirical observations to overturn Greek natural philosophy that had been taught for centuries. Newton's ideas were so well accepted that Queen Anne knighted him for his discoveries. He revolutionized science. That statement means that he changed the minds of the majority of the scientists of his time and his laws replaced the previous consensus.<br /><br />But Somerby ignores evidence like this. He prefers to leave his questions open so that he can assert that anything is possible. Science doesn't work like that, thank God.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8611810694571930415.post-84726469610472667362021-07-28T15:10:40.375-04:002021-07-28T15:10:40.375-04:00"We've struggled to make clear sense of t..."We've struggled to make clear sense of that unit ever since we first encountered Isaacson's book thirteen years ago. "<br /><br />No, Somerby has not "struggled" with that "unit". He has complained about it. But whining about having to make some effort isn't the same as doing the work.<br /><br />If Somerby had done anything whatsoever to try to understand Isaacson, he wouldn't still be at a loss after 13 years. People who engage in actual study learn things. People who complain and pass the blame to others do not learn anything.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com