2011-08-17, 08:21 AM
hadriel Wrote:As a musing, am I taking basic understanding in modern biology for granted? Is such stuff not taught in the teen years in your side of the world? To us, this is "basic science".
Considering my teen years are further away than 40% of our registered user base have been alive and what they've taught for biology has changed drastically in the past 20 years, yes, yes you are completely taking for granted what your audience, which consists of people from 13 to 65 at least, have/know/remember.
You're not addressing your peers here, you're addressing the general internet so you can't expect everyone to have similar knowledge and experience as you because it education is drastically different from country to country, school to school, culture to culture and generation to generation.
Biology and the other sciences in general have very little direct bearing on my day to day life. I read stuff like this article to get a general idea what's going on in the sciences but like most people I don't deeply research them because at the end of the day the only thing that will matter to me is whether it worked or not and what it works on, not how or why.
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