AP classes are great , but I think the bigger issue is the kid ' s inability to focus on important things he may not enjoy . That ' s an incredibly important life skill . <| sep |> thank you , i now understand why the guy on the train was saying this about america <| sep |> I ' m happy . We won without scoring on ourselves ! <| sep |> It ' s a lot more common to just refer to the weight as a total bar plates 225 lbsOrTo the plates two 45 ' s <| sep |> Yes , I was referring specifically to politics , but it ' s an issue with most subjects . Math never states that something is empirically true , just that the truthfulness of that thing is based on other things being true . O . k . first of all , you seem to require 100 % precision for something to count as a fact . Nothing is 100 % there is always degrees of uncertainty . If you ' re uncertain about something then how can you say it ' s a fact ? To say something is a fact is to say that it is 100 % certain . disagreement doesn ' t mean something isn ' t factual . It can simply mean that some poeple are attuned to the facts and others are not . So you ' re saying what some people say is somehow more important that what other people say ? Considering we ' re having a conversation about bias , doesn ' t it seem strange that you ' re saying that somehow you must be right because you ' re attuned to being right ? E . g . most people accept that global warming is a fact , and disagreement isn ' t an indication of there not being any facts . It ' s an indication of some people being wrong . It isn ' t a fact to say Global Warming exists , it ' s a fact to say that since the Industrial Revolution the atmosphere has been heating up at an abnormally high rate that is probably due to humans . But you see , the more you simplify something , the less true it becomes . And again , why does it seem like you ' re saying anyone who disagrees with you must be wrong ? And what do what people think have anything to do with the truth ? The whole point is bias . It doesn ' t matter if 1 person is wrong or a million , that would have no effect on something empirically true . Third of all , the fact the people have biases , doesn ' t mean they can ' t learn to compensate for them , at least to an extent . Yeah , no . That ' s just what people tell themselves , but you can ' t undo human nature . Fourth , there are tons of boring formal things people of different ideological outlooks agree on , such as e . g . the number of countries around the world , the percentage of voters over 18 , or who ' s the current president , the size of the budget deficit or the trade balance etc . You stated a couple of things in there that aren ' t known for certain . For example , the number of countries . 4 AivEQmfPpk The percentage of voters over 18 ? It would be impossible to know that since census data is never precise . All you can have is estimates . As for the current President , it could be Obama or it could be Joseph Kabila . You never specified which country , so either answer is correct . Sometimes you think you know something that ' s a fact . If you do , that means your proposition is wrong . You can limit your scope to make something more plausible , but 100 % certainty is impossible .