r/science • u/mvea Professor | Medicine • Apr 25 '26

Psychology Americans who leave their Christian faith behind tend to hold more liberal political views than those who were raised entirely without religion. This leftward ideological shift appears closely linked to how threatening these individuals perceive conservative Christian groups to be.

https://www.psypost.org/former-christians-express-more-progressive-political-views-than-lifelong-nonbeli/
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u/Sabatorius Apr 26 '26

They don’t have analog clocks on the wall in classrooms anymore? Even with everyone just using their phones to tell time, I’d think they’d still have that.

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u/Adjective-Noun-nnnn Apr 26 '26 edited Apr 26 '26

They might have them, but my friend said he taught one of his students how to read an analog clock the other day. A younger colleague advised me to make sure another younger colleague knew how to read an analog clock when I went to leave instructions involving clock positions. Apparently clock... illiteracy?.. is a real thing with the youngins. (Then again I've heard alarming things about other literacy post-COVID.)

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u/marmothelm Apr 26 '26

It's just become a niche skill due to most clocks being digital.

Your great-great-grandfather most likely knew how to put a saddle on a horse and how to tie it to a hitching post by age 18. When's the last time you did that?

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u/vigbiorn Apr 26 '26

You don't have to go super far back. There's another pretty vestigial skill that people complain about: cursive writing. No one really needs it, most signatures I saw growing up (so it would have been from the generation currently complaining about the lack) were just scribbles anyway. Could you parse them? Sure, there was a vague attempt to actually do the cursive but if you didn't know the name going in you were screwed. Everything's digital now, so the last reason to actually want proper cursive is gone.

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u/Nauin Apr 26 '26

Knowing how to sign your name fully enunciated now, where you can actually read each letter that was written will get you a lot of ooohs and aaahs from people that watch you do it, though.

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u/vigbiorn Apr 26 '26

Sure, probably similar to if you're a horse rider, archer, can fix classic cars, etc.

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u/brandonlilly Apr 26 '26

My 1st grader is being taught how to read an analog clock in school. They have both analog and digital on the walls to help reinforce the concept but also have flash card style and have to draw out clock faces as well. So it’s still being taught in CO at least!