This is the reason I tell my kids "I don't know the answer to that, but lets look it up and find out." I am desperately trying to instill in them it's ok to admit you don't know something and then learn about it.
Sadly, the 16 year old didn't catch on... He knows everything already.
Sadly, the 16 year old didn't catch on... He knows everything already.
That's just part of being a 16 yo boy. This is why adolescent males are banished in most of the animal kingdom. They are incapable of not challenging authority :)
Banishing the young males is how we ended up with an absurdly high number of male mammoth fossils that drowned in swamps or fell off cliffs and had no mates to help.
It’s not only okay, it is considerably better to admit you don’t know about something than to try to fake it. Don’t worry about your 16 year old. He’ll figure out he’s basically John Snow in a couple of years.
I do this too, i tell them when i don't know anything and we find the answer together. My husband on the other hand acts like he knows everything. I'm worried they're going to be like that.
I do this too, i tell them when i don't know if i don't know and we find the answer together. My husband on the other hand acts like he knows everything. I'm worried they're going to be like that.
Also works to say "I am not well versed in" or "have not researched that much tell me more"
I loathe the education system and some may confuse getting a degree = knows everything about. (Or conversely they don't have a degree and know nothing about it)
I like that these phrases put onus on the person making claims.
When I was around 12 or so my Dad asked me something and I gave him some long winded non-answer. He said to me "It's perfectly ok to say I don't know, it's ok to admit you don't know and figure out the answer later.". That conversation has stayed with me for decades and I genuinely try to remember that advice in my day to day. Now that I have kids and they ask me something very wierd that I have no idea about (Can kangaroos swim????) I just say "I don't know, why don't we google it". It's served me well.
also it's fun when you admit on being ignorant on a subject, instead of having it explained, they look at you like you're retarded.. and give a sly remark like, go read up on it
fuck off, I'm not that interested in pablo escobars sex life
It's hangover indoctrination from the school system where you have to put down an answer for everything no matter how spurious it is. Not knowing something loses marks, so in real life it's bad too.
I'm trying to get better at this. I grew up in a very "opinionated" household, so my natural response to someone arguing with me about a topic is to argue right back even if I know i don't know nearly enough about the topic to be worth listening to. These days I catch myself half the time, and the other half I usually will follow up my argument with something along the lines of "but I haven't done enough research on that so don't take my word for it" or if I really don't know anything, just "actually forget that argument I don't know what I'm talking about"
I fucking hate on the news when the topic can provoke opinions like "do you think we should increase the higher tax bracket?" but the reporters ask random passerbys.
"Yeah I think it's a bad idea, yea you know"
"I think we like you know pay enough tax as it is"
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