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I hate anyone with a passion when they say that they "did their research" as it's always "I read a Facebook page"
People have no idea what the word research implies, or what goes into actuall real research
Schools should really put much more focus on explaining what science is and what it does
It was killing me with the pandemic. ''I'm not sure about mRNA vaccines, I'm doing my own research'' homie, researching a vaccine means you are running a immunology lab. You're not researching, you're listening to a nut trying to sell you an unregulated vitamin in place of real medicine.
I did my own "looking into something and learning about it", and you know what? I came to the conclusion that a lot of those people are pretty smart and know what they're doing.
Research can mean something that's a synonym to what I said in quotes above since it doesn't specifically mean experimental research, but that still requires looking at a variety of credible sources and knowing how to interpret what they're saying.
Probably not what you're going to find on tiktok.
I long for the time when people said "I read a Facebook page"
Generally my circle watches 12 45-second videos on TikTok which gave them bias from assuming seeing it more places made it more right. They don't even have to go to the comments to get bamboozled.
Here in the UK properly researching topics was something we did in multiple classes in secondary/high school. Not just googling shit for an essay but checking our sources as well as source authors and dates.
This was true in the US during the 90s at least. But also some high school graduates can't read out loud.