• mommykink
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    3411 months 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

    • @[email protected]
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      2211 months ago

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

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          511 months ago

          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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            511 months ago

            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 Little bit out of date

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        11 months ago

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