[analog31]

Oh yeah, the error bars. As a physics teaching assistant in grad school, I was assigned to the freshman lab course, taught by a theoretician. The course was practically dominated by error bars, which were incredibly poorly explained, and taught in an almost doctrinaire way. That, and the equipment was so old and flaky that it produced nonsensical results.

The kids emerged from that course, convinced that physics is subjective.

They should decide whether they're teaching physics, or teaching experimentalism. The latter is valuable, but if so, it should be taught as such.