Tree Octopus (or: Schools Blaming Internet for Dumb Kids)

[Orphie]

After you read this, you should donate some money to save the tree octopus.  

[l-Kriel-l]

I feel so bad for that...octopus.
I wish to save it.

It's a real animal, you know.  

[Super Cheesio]

Damn I want myself a tree octopus now.  

[DeathlyGreed]

What does a tree octopus eat?
Tree crabs?  

[Waynebrizzle]

It's not really a shocker that kids are gullible.  

[Waynebrizzle]

Or the whole thing with, you know, educators lying to their students for the sake of a study. But yeah, let's just call them stupid.  

[Xilo The Odd]

i'm from oregon, i know how serious the situation for the tree octopus is. their natural breeding grounds are constantly disturbed so they can never have offspring, AND EVERYONE IS MORE WORRIED ABOUT A CREATURE LARGER THAN MOST BOATS! ******** THE WHALES!  

[Orphie]

Waynebrizzle

Or the whole thing with, you know, educators lying to their students for the sake of a study. But yeah, let's just call them stupid.

Exactly. Besides, why would a 7th grader think that their teacher is trying to trick them into searching for something that doesn't exist?  

[DeathlyGreed]

If you think about it, they sort of had a point with sites like Wikipedia but they went about their point all wrong.

It's only ever so misleading if the one who is actually teaching you is misleading you.

Things we find on the internet ourselves we leave to us to decide whether it's real or not.  

[Xilo The Odd]

deathgod isn't real, he is a computer program designed to covertly farm gold for another account!  

[DeathlyGreed]

And to that I say:

 

[Xilo The Odd]

and i say it isn't real  

[DeathlyGreed]

Isn't that the same thing?
Wait, or we talking about me or the cake?  

[Raptorphobia]

One i feel horrible for the tree octopi
and
Two this just proves that teachers aren't teaching children how to deduce that something like this is fake.
I BLAME THE TEACHERS!  

[Michi is a cat]

This study doesn't prove anything about the .

I could just as easily have printed a fake page on the Tree Octopus, add it to a Biology textbook in a library, direct kids who take part in the study to the faked material, then publish a paper claiming that reading books has an adverse effect on childrens' learning by making them more gullible.

Television, newspapers, pretty much any kind of media can be blamed in this way.