Poor numeracy 'blights the economy and ruins lives'

[Coito ergo sum]

It was much more difficult to make Merkins you'd never met cross, in the 70s.......

Even back then, 'merkin 'merkins were just paltry imitations of proper English 'merkins....

[Coito ergo sum]

You know, I do have a remarkably thick and rather distinguished head of hair, my barber comments on it everytime I go.

Anyway, we don't need to count or do sums, we have machines for that.

I just want people to be able to do some basic cipherin' so that I don't have to look at them like they are complete and utter imbeciles. I prefer to think well of my fellow citizens, and they make it so difficult sometimes...

[Clinton Huxley]

You know, I do have a remarkably thick and rather distinguished head of hair, my barber comments on it everytime I go.

Anyway, we don't need to count or do sums, we have machines for that.

I just want people to be able to do some basic cipherin' so that I don't have to look at them like they are complete and utter imbeciles. I prefer to think well of my fellow citizens, and they make it so difficult sometimes...

In the land of the numerical dunce, the man who can do long division is King....

[Coito ergo sum]

I'd be happy if they could just make change at the cash register without becoming befuddled.

[Clinton Huxley]

Kids these days are turning up at school still in nappies and unable to talk (wish I knew how those parents managed to have a 5 year old who couldnt talk, because my two never bloody well shut up). Can't expect them to learn maths too.

[Coito ergo sum]

Did you ever go to the cash register and the bill is like $1.18 (or Brit-money equivalent) -- all you have is a $20 bill, and some change, so you hand the person $20.18, only to have them look confusedly at the bill and the change, back and forth, attempting to puzzle out just what it is they're being asked to do...?

[Clinton Huxley]

Did you ever go to the cash register and the bill is like $1.18 (or Brit-money equivalent) -- all you have is a $20 bill, and some change, so you hand the person $20.18, only to have them look confusedly at the bill and the change, back and forth, attempting to puzzle out just what it is they're being asked to do...?

Give that chap a job at a credit rating agency immediately.

[MrJonno]

Did you ever go to the cash register and the bill is like $1.18 (or Brit-money equivalent) -- all you have is a $20 bill, and some change, so you hand the person $20.18, only to have them look confusedly at the bill and the change, back and forth, attempting to puzzle out just what it is they're being asked to do...?

Hardly going to be an issue in 20 in fact 10 years, cash is getting rarer and rarer all the time now. I should really try and work out what % of my expenses are paid for via cash can't more than 10% or so these days

[Coito ergo sum]

Did you ever go to the cash register and the bill is like $1.18 (or Brit-money equivalent) -- all you have is a $20 bill, and some change, so you hand the person $20.18, only to have them look confusedly at the bill and the change, back and forth, attempting to puzzle out just what it is they're being asked to do...?

Hardly going to be an issue in 20 in fact 10 years, cash is getting rarer and rarer all the time now. I should really try and work out what % of my expenses are paid for via cash can't more than 10% or so these days

That doesn't mean the underlying problem goes away.

[MrJonno]

Is having bad hand writing really a problem these days with this new fangled computer things, sure its exists but isnt a bit like moaning about goat herding skills not being what they were.

[Coito ergo sum]

Is having bad hand writing really a problem these days with this new fangled computer things, sure its exists but isnt a bit like moaning about goat herding skills not being what they were.

Having bad handwriting is not the same as being illiterate. Being innumerate is like being illiterate. It's being uneducated and appearing to be stupid. It's indicative of a reduced cognitive functioning, whereas sloppy handwriting is not.

[MrJonno]

Fair point, I just long ago accepted a high % of the population are extremely thick and base most my politics on that

[Coito ergo sum]

Fair point, I just long ago accepted a high % of the population are extremely thick and base most my politics on that

Some of this could be remedied by a healthy stigma being applied to people who don't value learning.

[apophenia]

You mean even more than being British does in and of itself?





What they don't realize is that advanced numeracy "blights the economy and ruins lives" every bit as much. Or is that advanced numerology.

[Atheist-Lite]

Quants are good with numbers but they're stll cunts to me.