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In Reply to: Electrical misconceptions? posted by tesla on August 23, 2005 at 21:40:22:
Very good website, to correct common laymen misconceptions. Should be publicized on IEEE Spectrum (not to correct EE's misconceptions, but in the "Spread-Science-and-Engineering--Love" sections -see my email-
Those misconceptions often come from too light courses in High Schools, with not enough hands-on, and fear of mathematics, which pushes the teacher to have kind of a litterary discourse about these matters.
A litterary discourse is the open door to fallacies (furthermore since there is no rhetorics courses about fallacies). When you go to a mathematical description, it's much more immune to fallacies (although not entirely): at the end, you have a calculation. If it doesn't fit to your expectations, it doesn't. And you have to find another way around. With litterary explanations, it's so easy to let you slide to fallacies to protect your erroneous thought. See previous thread about "noiseless resistors" as an example (straw man fallacy and two other fallacies. I let you bet)
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