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Honestly if you can’t calculate things on an abacus you shouldn’t be in the exam room tbh. Sure, calculators have been invented and have ultimately replaced the abacus in nearly every facet of day to day life, but surely you know how to add beads together?

We’re letting kids use GPS to get to school now? What the street signs and constellations aren’t good enough for you?

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FelixCress@lemmy.world ⁨20⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago
Let me rephrase it than - if someone is an idiot, they shouldn’t be in an exam room. If you are concerned about it, it may be because you fit the category.

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- Karl@literature.cafe ⁨20⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago
  What makes people who didn’t learn to read analog clocks idiots? If you have a thing about analog clocks, just keep it to yourself.
  
  it may be because you fit the category
  
  Or maybe because it’s just stupid af to judge people’s intelligence based on an unrelated life skill.
  
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  - FelixCress@lemmy.world ⁨19⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago
    
    What makes people who didn’t learn to read analog clocks idiots?
    
    Wrong question. The correct would be: what make people who are too lazy or too stupid to learn the clock idiots - but that would be a rhetorical one.
    
    it’s just stupid af to judge people’s intelligence based on an unrelated life skill.
    
    Intelligence is an ability to obtain knowledge and skills. If someone lacks both, it is a strong indication of them not having enough intelligence to obtain them.
    
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    Karl@literature.cafe ⁨19⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago
    
    who are too lazy or too stupid
    
    They do know how to read the clock (digital ones :) ) Again, it doesn’t make them idiots or lazy for not learning something they don’t really need to learn
    
    Intelligence is an ability to obtain knowledge and skills. If someone lacks both, it is a strong indication of them not having enough intelligence to obtain them.
    
    What makes you think they don’t have the ability to learn how to read analog clocks just because they don’t? You might not know how ride a horse, but that doesn’t mean you can’t learn how to. Are you an idiot for not learning how to?
    
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- Saganaki@lemmy.zip ⁨20⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago
  You don’t know how to use an abacus? You must be an idiot.
  
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  - FelixCress@lemmy.world ⁨20⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago
    No. Don’t know how to use the clock? You shouldn’t be in the exam room.
    
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    Karl@literature.cafe ⁨19⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago
    Except, they do know how to use a clock. Just not your favorite clock
    
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- papalonian@lemmy.world ⁨19⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago
  Yikes.
  
  Also, since you ran out of arguments and started correcting people’s spelling, *then.
  
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  - FelixCress@lemmy.world ⁨19⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago
    “yikes” what?
    
    Passing exams is not an entitlement, it is an achievement. If someone is an idiot unable to understand the clock, they shouldn’t be in the exam room in the first place - and they certainly shouldn’t expect someone will start explaining clock to them when they are supposed to write an exam.
    
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    DesolateMood@lemmy.zip ⁨17⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago
    Why are you so adamant that reading an analog clock is required to pass an exam that doesn’t feature any material related to reading analog clocks?
    
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