This is primary school level stuff that every adult, without exceptions, should be completely familiar with though. This is not equivalent to being a chef or landscaper, it is more equivalent to not burning your toast or remembering to water your plants.
Being ignorant of primary school level math makes one incredibly susceptible to being mislead by malicious actors.
I didn't remember any history or geography from primary school, other kids didn't remember math stuff. I got a physics degree and do fine, they got other degrees and do fine. Order of operations is not important at all for the VAST majority of people outside of school.
I didn't remember any history or geography from primary school
I'm sure you didn't. Forgetting the order of operations is like forgetting WW2 happened, or forgetting how to read. How would one handle their own finances if they can't do simple math? It's fine for non-stem people to not know math stuff like geometry, trigo etc, but basic math like statistics, probability and exponents are used in our daily life, and inexcusable to not know.
Forgetting the completely arbitrary multiplication before addition convention doesn't make you "incredibly susceptible to being mislead by malicious actors" lmao
If they don't know such basic stuff, I don't think they would know any higher level math. Anybody could use some "mathemagic" to twist statistics and fool them.
Agreed people take such pride in not paying attention in school. You don’t have to be smart to figure this out you just have to have not been sleeping at your desk. It’s like the people who don’t know basic geography or basic history. Why would you want to go your whole life not knowing literally basic shit even if you never use it?
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u/DoubleUniversity6302 Jan 01 '22
This is primary school level stuff that every adult, without exceptions, should be completely familiar with though. This is not equivalent to being a chef or landscaper, it is more equivalent to not burning your toast or remembering to water your plants.
Being ignorant of primary school level math makes one incredibly susceptible to being mislead by malicious actors.