Fellow fedizens!

[vikingkong@misskey.vikingkong.xyz]

@LucasWerkmeister@wikis.world Looks like some sort of cargo cult.

[jerzone@techhub.social]

@LucasWerkmeister
Lemmings do not engage in mass suicidal dives off cliffs when migrating.
"The lemmings in the film were actually purchased from Inuit children, transported to the filming location in Canada and repeatedly shoved off a nearby cliff by the filmmakers to create the illusion of a mass suicide."
#wtf

[angelastella@social.treehouse.systems]

@LucasWerkmeister

We programmers could spend the days until the equinox educating ourselves about our own misconceptions or rather plain falsehoods:

https://github.com/kdeldycke/awesome-falsehood

These have teeth.

cc @mina

[mina@berlin.social]

@angelastella

That looks fabulous!

@LucasWerkmeister

[mina@berlin.social]

@angelastella

I am missing "Object oriented programming is always a good idea".

@LucasWerkmeister

[iron_bug@friendica.ironbug.org]

@LucasWerkmeister I didn't know any of the mentioned "misconceptions". it was the first time I had read that weird assumprions.

[angelastella@social.treehouse.systems]

@mina @LucasWerkmeister

Tools and methods talk gets too meta and that's the stuff holy wars are made of.

[gcvsa@mstdn.plus]

@LucasWerkmeister Also useful:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_fallacies

[fishidwardrobe@mastodon.me.uk]

@LucasWerkmeister i have said it before and i'll say it again: some of these are pretty silly. this may be more a reflection on the target readers than the writers — but does anyone *actually* believe there is a scientific basis for astronomy, for example?

(some others of these, on the other hand, are not silly at all.)

[mariellequinton@ottawa.place]

@fishidwardrobe @LucasWerkmeister are you confusing astronomy and astrology?

[stylus@social.afront.org]

@LucasWerkmeister but in that universe we have the Misconception Paradox, which is that anything listed in the article will become an uncommon misconception by February 8, and new common misconceptions will need to be found. It's ultimately self-defeating.

[ahimsa_pdx@disabled.social]

@LucasWerkmeister
I looked throught the first list (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_common_misconceptions_about_arts_and_culture ) to see which ones I didn't know about.

Here's one common misconception that I learned is wrong. Hemingway did not write the famous 6 word story, "For sale: baby shoes, never worn." So, thanks, learned something new!

Going to keep reading, hoping to learn some more ...

[arratoon@beige.party]

@mariellequinton @fishidwardrobe @LucasWerkmeister Pfff, you’re saying stars and planets actually exist? Yeah, right… 😉

[edavies@functional.cafe]

@fishidwardrobe IHYM “astrology”.

(I Hope You Mean)

@LucasWerkmeister

[fishidwardrobe@mastodon.me.uk]

@mariellequinton @LucasWerkmeister only in spelling… oops…

[smartmanapps@dotnet.social]

@LucasWerkmeister @sandyarmstrong
The problem is that some of their "corrections" are in fact misconceptions themselves. Welcome to what happens when your next-door-neighbour Joe Blow can edit/admin a page and not check it's correct. I always say Wikipedia is "like an encyclopedia" in the same way that Madonna is like a virgin. Go to reputable sources in the first place (like Maths textbooks for Maths)
https://dotnet.social/@SmartmanApps/115207044364101854

[smartmanapps@dotnet.social]

@LucasWerkmeister @sandyarmstrong

[sandyarmstrong@hachyderm.io]

@SmartmanApps @LucasWerkmeister I hope nobody takes any source as absolute truth, be it wikipedia or anything else. It's still a great list and a fun starting point to learn new things.

Also, I disagree with your counterexample. 🙂

[raccoon@techhub.social]

@LucasWerkmeister
@mcjevans

[raccoon@techhub.social]

@SmartmanApps @LucasWerkmeister @sandyarmstrong
This is a really old misconception that, itself, has been debunked. Numerous fact-checks of Wikipedia have found that, even though it contains inaccuracies, it is just as if not more reliable than other Encyclopedias, on top of having more sources you can follow.