Vice President Kamala Harris, responding to former President Donald Trump's claims about her IQ, said she would take a cognitive test — and "would challenge him to take the same one."
It’s probably like field sobriety tests, where how you struggle is relevant. If you miss one in a sequence, that says something different from repeatedly going up instead of down or counting backwards on your hands first.
Doing arithmetics quickly is a skill that is slowly dying out of the general population. When we all used cache we had this with us all the time, but now we just don’t use it that often, generally, on average
And my teachers at school used to say “You wont always have a calculator on you”
Look at me now, i spend 7.5 hours a day paid to sit in front of an expensive calculator with two other expensive calculators in my pocket. after which i spend several hours on my own personal expensive calculator before going to bed and doom scrolling on one of the aforementioned… expensive calculators.
Anything more than the most basic mental arithmetic at school was a waste of time that would have been better spent teaching me how to code. would have saved me teaching myself a few years later after working a soul crushing call centre job for 4 years (in which i used a not very expensive and dog shit slow calculator)
If this were the entire question, I’d be confused. Another comment suggested starting from 0 and going into negatives, but my initial response would be “starting from what?” expecting to start at 100 or 77 or something.
However, an elementary school teacher told me that negative numbers don’t exist, so that might be related …
The teacher’s argument was that if you took seven pencils away from five pencils, you’d have negative two pencils, but negative pencils aren’t a thing.
You could try making the same argument to your bank, replacing “pencils” with your local currency.
counting backwards in multiples of 7? i’d struggle with that and i consider myself at least average
It’s a common test for concussion. Voice of experience.
It’s probably like field sobriety tests, where how you struggle is relevant. If you miss one in a sequence, that says something different from repeatedly going up instead of down or counting backwards on your hands first.
I would need to use my hands or count out loud or do something after maybe two numbers if we are starting at 100.
Trying it out just now and the only way I can really effectively do it is by subbing 10 and adding three each time.
That’s literally what they taught my niece to do in math, so that’s not inherently a problem.
Doing arithmetics quickly is a skill that is slowly dying out of the general population. When we all used cache we had this with us all the time, but now we just don’t use it that often, generally, on average
just as well, i always struggled with it.
And my teachers at school used to say “You wont always have a calculator on you”
Look at me now, i spend 7.5 hours a day paid to sit in front of an expensive calculator with two other expensive calculators in my pocket. after which i spend several hours on my own personal expensive calculator before going to bed and doom scrolling on one of the aforementioned… expensive calculators.
Anything more than the most basic mental arithmetic at school was a waste of time that would have been better spent teaching me how to code. would have saved me teaching myself a few years later after working a soul crushing call centre job for 4 years (in which i used a not very expensive and dog shit slow calculator)
If this were the entire question, I’d be confused. Another comment suggested starting from 0 and going into negatives, but my initial response would be “starting from what?” expecting to start at 100 or 77 or something.
However, an elementary school teacher told me that negative numbers don’t exist, so that might be related …
So I’m not in debt??? What a relief!
The teacher’s argument was that if you took seven pencils away from five pencils, you’d have negative two pencils, but negative pencils aren’t a thing.
You could try making the same argument to your bank, replacing “pencils” with your local currency.
Let me know how it goes!
I don’t think I’m a sovereign enough citizen to pull this off.
Banks hate this simple trick
0, -7, -14, -22… dangit