Poor numeracy 'blights the economy and ruins lives'

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Post by Coito ergo sum » Fri Mar 02, 2012 2:00 pm

Clinton Huxley wrote: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.... :biggrin:

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Post by Coito ergo sum » Fri Mar 02, 2012 2:02 pm

Clinton Huxley wrote: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...

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Post by Clinton Huxley » Fri Mar 02, 2012 2:04 pm

Coito ergo sum wrote:
Clinton Huxley wrote: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....
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Post by Coito ergo sum » Fri Mar 02, 2012 2:06 pm

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

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Post by Clinton Huxley » Fri Mar 02, 2012 2:09 pm

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.
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Post by Coito ergo sum » Fri Mar 02, 2012 2:12 pm

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...?

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Post by Clinton Huxley » Fri Mar 02, 2012 2:34 pm

Coito ergo sum wrote: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.
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Post by MrJonno » Fri Mar 02, 2012 2:37 pm

Coito ergo sum wrote: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
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Post by Coito ergo sum » Fri Mar 02, 2012 2:49 pm

MrJonno wrote:
Coito ergo sum wrote: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. :fp:

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Post by MrJonno » Fri Mar 02, 2012 3:09 pm

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.
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Post by Coito ergo sum » Fri Mar 02, 2012 3:12 pm

MrJonno wrote: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.

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Post by MrJonno » Fri Mar 02, 2012 3:38 pm

Fair point, I just long ago accepted a high % of the population are extremely thick and base most my politics on that
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Post by Coito ergo sum » Fri Mar 02, 2012 3:39 pm

MrJonno wrote: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.

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Re: Poor numeracy 'blights the economy and ruins lives'

Post by apophenia » Sat Mar 03, 2012 7:52 am





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.



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Post by Atheist-Lite » Sat Mar 03, 2012 8:37 am

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