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We have reached max stupidity and are officially living in the movie Idiocracy! How does someone not immediately know the answer to 550 divided by 2?
1 posted on 01/04/2023 7:26:21 AM PST by CFW
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Social media users are STUPID.


2 posted on 01/04/2023 7:27:59 AM PST by Delta 21 (MAGA Republican is my pronoun.)
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Millennials: “Math is sure hard!”


3 posted on 01/04/2023 7:28:09 AM PST by Mr. K (No consequence of repealing obamacare is worse than obamacare its ? And the ambassador to Ukraineelf)
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How does someone not immediately know the answer to 550 divided by 2?

This is what happens when children are allowed to use pocket calculators in arithmetic class.

They can't do arithmetic.

But they have self-esteem ... and that's what really matters, isn't it?

4 posted on 01/04/2023 7:28:22 AM PST by NorthMountain (... the right of the peopIe to keep and bear arms shall not be infringed)
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I had to pull off my shoes to do that one.


6 posted on 01/04/2023 7:29:21 AM PST by MtnClimber (For photos of Colorado scenery and wildlife, click on my screen name for my FR home page.)
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Half of 500 is 250. Half of 50 is 25.

You do the math.

Social Media Idiot: “Huh?”


7 posted on 01/04/2023 7:29:54 AM PST by Responsibility2nd (Fake News. Might be true; but it’s designed to distort, mislead, brainwash and BS sheeple. )
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8 posted on 01/04/2023 7:31:34 AM PST by PGR88
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It’s a trick the mind plays. We know that the answer starts with 200, and that 50/2 is 25, so immedietly the mind goes to 225.

Full disclosure: I thought 225 as well. At least I recognize the mind trick, and am not baffled.


9 posted on 01/04/2023 7:32:31 AM PST by jimtorr
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“You the smartest man in the world huh? Sheit, I thought your head would be bigger...”


10 posted on 01/04/2023 7:32:51 AM PST by EEGator
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"How does someone not immediately know the answer to 550 divided by 2?"

Yeah, I got that one almost immediately, and my clutch has been slipping for a couple of years now...

11 posted on 01/04/2023 7:33:02 AM PST by unread ("It's not enough that we do our best; sometimes we have to do what's required." W. Churchill.)
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I’ll bet they trophies...


12 posted on 01/04/2023 7:33:13 AM PST by Altura Ct.
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Knowing the correct answer is racis’!


13 posted on 01/04/2023 7:33:30 AM PST by RouxStir (No Peein' in the Gene Pool )
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These people will be easy prey for con artists and swindlers.


15 posted on 01/04/2023 7:35:19 AM PST by Starboard
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Be sure to show your work…


18 posted on 01/04/2023 7:35:33 AM PST by gov_bean_ counter (Eccl 10:2 - The heart of the wise inclines to the right, but the heart of the fool to the left.)
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Why is math so hard [for youngsters]?

Because "feelings" don't enter into arithmetic, geometry, trig, and calculus. It's about finding the precise right answer from available data.

The up-and-coming generations have a problem with that. Which can also explain why STEM is so difficult for the fairer sex.

23 posted on 01/04/2023 7:36:52 AM PST by asinclair (What doesn't kill you makes you stronger)
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How damned stupid are these people? I can’t stand it.


24 posted on 01/04/2023 7:36:56 AM PST by dinodino ( )
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seem to instinctively assume

I guess we need more math to overcome Darwinian Sociology

25 posted on 01/04/2023 7:37:25 AM PST by goo goo g'joob
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Our vaunted publik educashion! It’s for the children.


26 posted on 01/04/2023 7:37:31 AM PST by Obadiah (Died suddenly: Obediently following the science to the grave.)
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Social media users have been left bewildered after discovering that 550 divided by two is 275 - and not 225 as many seem to instinctively assume.

I'm left bewildered as to what those same many social media users instinctively assume is 450 divided by two.

27 posted on 01/04/2023 7:38:02 AM PST by Dahoser (I finally figured out what to call him: Fakephonyfraudident Biden.)
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"Social media users have been left bewildered after discovering that 550 divided by two is 275 - and not 225 as many seem to instinctively assume."

Unless it involves Biden getting his 'cut', then it is 225.

28 posted on 01/04/2023 7:38:06 AM PST by Tench_Coxe
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https://biggeekdad.com/2014/12/abbott-costello-math/


29 posted on 01/04/2023 7:38:26 AM PST by gov_bean_ counter (Eccl 10:2 - The heart of the wise inclines to the right, but the heart of the fool to the left.)
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