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Sometimes_Stutters t1_j2a4gjw wrote

This is stupid. Not everyone knows or care about the physics/chemistry related to soda fizz. Not exactly a requirement to be a productive, insightful, and intelligent person. They probably heard this trick from someone, it made sense at their level, and they figured they can preserve their soda at the relative cost of absolutely nothing.

I’m an engineer with a masters degree. My relatives are very blue collar. I don’t expect them to know a lot do things that I do. I don’t know a lot of things they know. No sense in looking down on someone because they have a set a knowledge different than yours, and that you may not value as much.

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dantodd OP t1_j2agt17 wrote

Why would you assume that someone who lacks the logical ability to understand partial pressure is blue collar? I suspect the person with the bias here is you. Ignorance is nothing to be ashamed of but willfully refusing the learn.... there the problem.

In fact, the person who inspired this has a college degree and a white collar job that requires a relatively high degree of both interpersonal communication skills and more than basic math and business accounting skills. In fact, I suspect, though do not know for certain, that he has attended business school and may even have obtained an MBA.

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Sometimes_Stutters t1_j2ahwki wrote

I never said that. First paragraph I said that someone who doesn’t know the physics behind soda fizz isn’t illogical (like you said in your post). My second paragraph I shared a personal experience regarding the difference between my knowledge and the knowledge my blue collar family has, and that both knowledge sets are unique and valuable.

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