Things you might want to know
We talk a lot about common sense; as if that's a good thing. I remember my uncle describing a guy once by saying that he was smart as a whip but didn't have a lick of common sense. So it has always been something held up as a good thing. The problem is that common sense is sometimes wrong too. In my sociology classes each semester, we take ten common sense statements and prove their error through research, rather than just assuming they're correct because they sound right. I've been doing research this week, looking for things that might fall into this category or other things that you might not know but probably should. Here are some of them: