Das Mädchen, das Polen zum Narren gehalten hat: Wie einfache Manipulation ohne Überprüfung das Vertrauen in Führer und Institutionen untergräbt
https://eualive.net/the-girl-who-fooled-poland-how-easy-manipulation-without-verification-erodes-trust-in-leaders-and-institutions/
Von Nigarun
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Kornelia W. soon. The topic is trending, so more facts will be verified.
Chłopak myślał, że znalazł cudowne dziecko, którym mógłby się pochwalić. Tymczasem po raz kolejny tylko potwierdził, jak bardzo jest nieudolny.
Pogratulować NAĆPANOWI i jego bandzie imbecyli…HAHAHAHA
„the next Marie Curie in the making“
hello? where is the Polish embassy? what is the president and prime minister’s office doing to stop this terrible slander? where are the lawsuits and why is the GROM not in action yet?
all rise and sing: Jeszcze Polska nie zginęła….
Honestly – I couldn’t care less for that kid, but the situation shows how all the work put into popularization of science has failed, entirely.
Years and decades of teamwork, getting published works, being cited – it should be given more attention. Not some empty notion of a „talent“ – it’s all hard work, and anyone can achieve it. Especially in Poland, where the best institutes belong to public universities.
One can’t make things popular without being honest. Citing actual published works should be an essential part of presentations targeting general audience too. Because, otherwise, science becomes undistinguishable from „alternative“ superstitions. And „having respectable and widely cited works“ cannot be appreciated as a better achievement than „being in a ranking because of being in a ranking“, unless you discuss the published works. Or finished projects. Or publicly available source code and documentation. Or patents.
Making that distinction should be a key objective of science popularization initiatives. Nothing could be more counterproductive than showing „genius“ kids who are supposed to be instantly better than the whole communities. Even if they truly were genius and successful in olympiads and individual contests of hard skills (which ones in the ranking sometimes, somehow, are not).
Common sense 101: if something sounds too good to be true then it probably is.
Guys like this sub has been going at it for a week, am I the only one who thinks it went too far? She’s still a child after all, or a young, inexperienced woman at the very least.
Like, you can we all agree this was wrong and forget about it? Or am I missing something and this decoration she received is that important?
Because honestly, I would hate to be in her situation. It’s easy to imagine that her parents or someone else did half the promoting, there’s no way someone her age is that intentional in shaping their public image.
And now a person that’s probably having plenty of pressure on her own is being portrayed almost like a criminal for.. what exactly? Going at others? Or it’s just about stomping her into the ground because there’s a justification?
Leave Karolina Wieczorek Alone!
“There are two kinds of scientific progress: the methodical experimentation and categorization which gradually extend the boundaries of knowledge, and the revolutionary leap of genius which redefines and transcends those boundaries. Acknowledging our debt to the former, we yearn, nonetheless, for the latter.”