On quora website, which is the website for questioning and answering by its community of users, This question was asked: "What are the biggest facepalm moments you have ever experienced?". Sean Kernan answered this question that it's happened every time when he visits Yahoo Answer website, he's also captured those questions and share with us. Followings are the examples of them.
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My response
I read this in the morning on the subway and I think it is actually true and so fun. So I just want to share it to all of you. I got the same experience likes Kernan. When I tried to search some information and I visited Yahoo answer website, there are some ridiculous answers there.
This also reminds me of Pantip website. Even though it is a very good website and I used it a lot when I need some information about products, restaurant, and travel places, there are some ridiculous questions also; Asking about the name of song, for example, many years ago before Shazam app alive, there are the questions likes "what is the song's name that song's rhythm are "Sha Da Di Da Sha Saa"" I think how we know the answer but there is someone know the answer. How that person know? This is the question that I mean.
Another fun question is "How much the tuition cost in Hawkward"; When I read those questions, it is so fun and I was laughing. I asked the question to myself why those people asked the questions like that. They just want to make other people laughing or they seriously want to know the answers.
By the way, What are biggest facepalm moments that you have ever experience?
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Reference
- Kernan, S. "What are the biggest facepalm moments you have ever experienced?".(2016, November 10) Quora. Retrieved from https://www.quora.com/What-are-the-biggest-facepalm-moments-you-have-ever-experienced/answer/Sean-Kernan?srid=ujqul&share=8c6a87bf
I've never heard of "facepalm", but Topp's examples are funny. My .gif files also refuse to move when printed!
ReplyDeleteI also like the question: "If someone says 'It's hot outside.' is that fact or opinion?" We have had similar questions when Den, for example, asked what is truth?
I was thinking similarly in class this morning when I used the example of our ideas about the universe as an example. For two thousand years, from Aristotle to the Copernican revolution, every educated Western person was sure that it was true that the Earth was a sphere at the centre of the universe (not since the much older time or Homer did anyone think it flat), around which everything else revolved in more or less perfect spheres. So certain were some that the Christian popes made is a crime to disagree, which caused serious problems for scientists like Kepler and Galileo who were discovering that we are not the centre of the universe: the 100% majority opinion was wrong. Today, we similar religiously inspired refusal to admit truths about evolution.
Although it's more controversial, I'm also standing by my second example from this morning's class: the moral believe that homosexuality is evil and a sin was also always wrong. Moral beliefs are true or false, right or wrong, just like claims about the nature of the material universe, and new insights should lead to better understanding and the rejection of false moral beliefs from our ancestors.
I think the question "Is it hot outside?" is a little different - that is true or false depending on the speaker, but when we clarify what we mean by saying "It's hot outside," the disagreement disappears: people feel hot at different temperatures, and if we clarify that "It's hot" really means "I feel hot," then it's perfectly reasonable for different speakers to feel differently at the same temperature. In contrast, the Earth was never at the centre of the universe and it was never true that there was anything morally wrong about being gay, nor was it ever morally right to own slaves, as was common in human societies until very recently - until the 1860s in the United States and even more recently in Thailand.
Could a new letter be added to the alphabet?
ReplyDeleteThe Romans only had 24, compared to the 26 letters that English has. What would it take to add a new letter to the English alphabet? To the Thai alphabet?
I don't use Pantip that much nor do I use Quora.
ReplyDeleteFor me the phrase "It is hot outside" is an opinion because it is not objective. Feeling of hot can vary from one person to another. However, if we look outside and see hot air flowing up above the ground, it should be indisputable that outside is hot; then it is a fact.
If someone today (2016 AD) says: "The Earth is a planet that circles the sun, which is on the edges of the Milky Way galaxy, which is one of billions of known galaxies in the universe," is this fact or opinion?
ReplyDeleteIf someone 2,000 years ago (16 AD) said: "The Earth is the centre of the universe about which everything revolves," is that statement fact or opinion?
I rather like the discussion that Topp's post has prompted: the distinctions we make between facts and opinions are central not only to our academic work, but to our understanding of the world around us.
Two more examples of statements to consider: are the sentences "2+2=5" and "it's morally wrong to punish adults for selling or using drugs" stating facts or opinions?
I think both of these phrase are opinions. The former is just an opinion of scientists. The latter is also an opinion that is coincidentally the same as the fact. However in standardized test, both can be facts because when it's not the author's opinion then it's a fact. In the real world, however, opinion is what people believe. The fact only exists when it has been proved.
DeleteThis reminds me of a Chinese series that I have watched. Qin Shi Huang's grand son, who was the emperor at that time, was asked by general Xiang Yu whether his grand father is great. The emperor answered "Yes". Then the general asked " how about me?." The Emperor said "I have no clue. The one that is qualified to evaluate your greatness is the next generations."
I like this phrase because it tell us the way things are. A fact is a fact when it has been proved and it was in the past. For example, when we go to see a pond and it is green, the pond at that time is green. However it is possible that tomorrow the color might change. Then the color of the pond won't be green anymore. 1+1 may or may not be equal to 2 as time elapse. That is, two individuals may bear a child and become three or may die from illness and age.
HaHa. Your topic remind me about a music that I know only the rhythm of it which is hard for me to find its name.
ReplyDeleteIt will be hard for me to listen to that music again, If I don't know their name. Next time it may be worth for me to type only the lyric of music and let people guess about its name 55.
HaHa. Your topic remind me about a music that I know only the rhythm of it which is hard for me to find its name.
ReplyDeleteIt will be hard for me to listen to that music again, If I don't know their name. Next time it may be worth for me to type only the lyric of music and let people guess about its name 55.