Re: Right, wrong, and switching opinions

[William Beaty <billb@eskimo.com>]

On Wed, 11 Feb 1998, Dewey Dykstra, Jr. wrote:

> Bill I have one query concerning your note of Wed, 11 Feb 1998 00:38:08
> -0800 (PST).
>
> You say: "Physics teachers are professional paradigm shifters...they don't
> count. [in reference to Frasier's claim about the impossibility of change
> in these ideas]"  Yet, elsewhere in your note you point out:
>
> "Phys-L is not immune to this sort of thing.  Explanation of airfoils.

<snip>

> So if "we" have a hard time changing and we are not particularly successful
> in changing the vast majority of our students, in what sense are _we_
> "professional paradigm shifters?"


Heh.  The exception which proves the rule?   ;)


If one is looking for evidence that people rarely change their viewpoints,
physics instructors will bias the results, no?


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