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JCreazy@midwest.social 3 weeks ago
It is quite devastating when you see people lacking even the most basic or common of knowledge. No wonder the world is in a state that it is in. You can’t expect people to make changes when they barely even know how the world works.
grrgyle@slrpnk.net 3 weeks ago
I mean some people just freeze up around numbers. That’s not the end of the world as long as they know suck at that.
Like I’m a programmer and I’m like comically bad at math. Like 3 Stooges bad. If I’m forced to do math on the spot I will expand a lot of energy figuring out exactly the wrong thing.
frozen@lemmy.frozeninferno.xyz 3 weeks ago
Same! Senior dev here with both dyscalculia and dysgraphia. Numbers literally transpose for me, for example when I’m filling out a restaurant receipt and calculating tip+total. It’s wild.
grrgyle@slrpnk.net 3 weeks ago
Oh, lightbulb. I’m wildly bad at numbers even outside of math. Like I no longer trust myself to type even four digit ticket numbers by hand - copy paste only!