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Teaching the scientific method (lemmy.world)

submitted 2 years ago by The_Picard_Maneuver@lemmy.world to c/whitepeopletwitter@sh.itjust.works

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[–] Tarquinn2049@lemmy.world 3 points 2 years ago (1 children)

It's always weird trying to put in perspective how valuable the things we waste are. Like to us, butter is a couple dollars, cuz it's never not there, we don't have to think about how much butter there is. There is no other tangible cost than the simple dollar value. So like if you compare it to going to see a movie in the theater, the dollar value kind of makes sense of using this butter for entertainment and teaching. But if butter didn't feel potentially unlimited to us, the cost might then not feel worth it, even if the dollar value didn't change.

[–] nikaaa@sh.itjust.works 1 points 2 years ago

Yeah, people will go spend $1500 on holidays, but won't spend $3 on this experiment because "it's a waste of butter".