#literally guiding his hand on the shared google doc by rewriting his shit to be a little more scientifically rigorous is so fun
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tutoring a middle schooler is actually so fucking fun
#so i tutor him in chinese and biology right#and the chinese is easy enough. we talk about shit we go over grammar we look at flash cards and write new sentences. easy peasy#but the biology is so so fucking funny i love how confident kids are in being absolutely wrong about shit#hes writing a report on pterois volitans. the invasive red lionfish#and hes writing about how it evolved venomous spines and camouflage and carnivorousness as traits#and i nixed the last one bc how tf do you prove that kiddo. we gotta like quote literature#you cant just say shit#but we found good evidence on the first two points#but its so so fun watching him interact w this big fancy scientific literature and trying to glean every nuance#(and missing the mark. because fucking duh hes like 13 and scientific literature is actually a learned skill and hes learning it)#(i do not intend to make fun of his lack of knowledge)#(it is sinply very fun and cool to watch the process of learning this skill in real time)#ans watching him try and figure out every ounce of what the paper was trying to say#when all he needed was a single sentence stating that camouflage allowed lionfish to outperform native predators#literally guiding his hand on the shared google doc by rewriting his shit to be a little more scientifically rigorous is so fun#bc hell write shit like bc of the increased survivability of lionfish they evolved venomous spines.#this is not correct homeboy you got the cause and effect switched up there bud#how about the evolution of camouflage increased the survivability of lionfish by increasing their hunting capability#or the evolution of spines increased the rate at which lionfish w that trait survived to reproductive age#anyway
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