• mommykink@lemmy.world
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    1 year ago

    I understand the idea that someone referring to 1994 as “the late 1900s,” is pretty funny, but in my experience as an undergrad, most professors would ask you to use a more recent article if the citation was anything more than an anecdote

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      Depends from the field really, a math paper from the 70s would be considered fairly recent in some cases.

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        1 year ago

        In my school they’re still doing environmental classes with a textbook from last century…

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          I took a quantum physics class that used a textbook from the 70s, and it only covered ideas discovered around the 20s. Most courses only need really old knowledge

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            Yeah but it was speculating how carbon in the air might be a bad thing and how electric vehicles might some day be feasibly commonplace. Little bit out of date

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        An undergrad math degree stops right around the start of the 20th century. Grad school might get you to the 80s in specific areas.