• pticrix@lemmy.ca
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    16 hours ago

    I think Americans should ban debate clubs. Clearly they’re only teaching how to create mental convolutions instead of creating sound arguments.

    • subverted_per@lemmy.blahaj.zone
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      9 hours ago

      Oh no, debate clubs are actually very good at teaching kids how to discern good information from bad, and how to make proper arguments with supporting evidence. Right wing media teaches gish gallop and never be wrong, it’s these two ideas that have taken over discourse.

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        2 hours ago

        I will have to take your word on that. Got to admit my opinion is based on a limited set of people I had the displeasure of interacting with.

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      16 hours ago

      Americans should consider doing mathematical convolution instead. Very important for functional analysis with deep connections to the Laplace, and thus Fourier, transforms.