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Re: careless editing

fairly concice* (for a four-year-old) 

*concise

On 8/22/06, Heather Yager <heather.yager@gmail.com> wrote: 
> I have intelligent and otherwise well-educated friends around my age
> (29) who, before I told them otherwise, thought that not only
> saber-toothed cats, but even trilobites were dinosaurs.

On a positive note, though, I've taught pre-schoolers who can provide
descriptions of an astounding 
array of dinosaurs as well as describe the differences between
saurischians and ornithischians...

-Heather

On 8/22/06, T. Michael Keesey <keesey@gmail.com> wrote:
> On 8/22/06, Scott <hmwh@together.net> wrote:
>
> > This much ignorance I find difficult to credit. If I showed a picture of a
> > saber-toothed cat to 100 people, asking, "What's this?" I would expect zero
> > responses of "It's a dinosaur." Has anyone any data?
>

> --
> T. Michael Keesey
> The Dinosauricon: http://dino.lm.com
> Parry & Carney: http://parryandcarney.com
>