davepoobond said:

even though its pretty sad, i have to ask what is the realistic and pressing matter as to why this actually matters?



ill give the example that i am a know-nothing in engineering. im not going into engineering, so it doesnt matter that im completely uneducated about engineering.



most of these people are not going to be history teachers or anything to do that actually requires the knowledge that knowing this fact, albeit "important," resulting in not affecting anything.