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And people wonder why America is the way it is. A grown ass adult married woman can’t even grasp the concept of mph. The school system has majorly failed this woman. It’s like even the concept of critical thinking has been eradicated.
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Submitted 4 months ago by AcesFullOfKings@feddit.uk to videos@lemmy.world
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ironchico@lemmy.world 4 months ago
Tujio@lemmy.world 4 months ago
"Think about how dumb the average American is. Then think that half of em are summer than that!"
- George Carlin
Anticorp@lemmy.world 4 months ago
She was thinking critically.
ChihuahuaOfDoom@lemmy.world 4 months ago
1hr, I refuse to watch the video.
MissJinx@lemmy.world 4 months ago
The best part is “the wheels must turn 400 times per mile” hauahauhahah
mPony@lemmy.world 4 months ago
yeah I can do without watching a YT video to listen to someone say stupid things.
it’s bad enough knowing that some people literally make better money creating bullshit YT and TV shows than I make at my job.
JCreazy@midwest.social 4 months 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 4 months 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 4 months 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.
NoRodent@lemmy.world 4 months ago
Ahh, haven’t seen this in a long time.
Though you kinda have to give to her, that her initial guesstimate was 58 minutes. That’s just 3.3% error, not bad considering the ridiculous way she arrived at that number. Maybe she’s really good at estimates but can’t do any precise math. She might even be an engineer.
BleatingZombie@lemmy.world 4 months ago
Based on the title, it seeks like the question was 80 mph. Not 60
captainskipper@feddit.de 4 months ago
Think about this really hard again.
SkyezOpen@lemmy.world 4 months ago
You’re right, it would take an hour to go 60 miles at 60mph. Try the math again with 80 miles at 80mph.
riodoro1@lemmy.world 4 months ago
And yet it didn’t keep him from marrying her. True love
DarkThoughts@fedia.io 4 months ago
I'm sure she's a nice girl, but I don't think I could bear such a large intellectual gap for too long. Stuff like this becomes frustrating quite quickly. But then again, in their case it might not be too big of a gap anyway. Understanding the basic principles behind measuring units does not make him Einstein.
DScratch@sh.itjust.works 4 months ago
Or he had the same reaction as her. Had it explained to him and is now passing on the fun.
xep@fedia.io 4 months ago
Okay, but what if the car was also 80 miles long?
kionite231@lemmy.ca 4 months ago
Instantaneously!
AgentGrimstone@lemmy.world 4 months ago
Well let’s see. If I’m 5’11 and I can run a mile in 8 minutes…
Anticorp@lemmy.world 4 months ago
Ride that snake.
morgunkorn@discuss.tchncs.de 4 months ago
This was painful to watch, I would have stopped and asked her to continue on foot.
Fredselfish@lemmy.world 4 months ago
He didn’t marry her for her brains apparently. But why is no one pissed he is filming this while driving? He is just a big dumb ass.
morgunkorn@discuss.tchncs.de 4 months ago
Maybe there’s a reason why the comments are off on that vid :D
magnetosphere@fedia.io 4 months ago
You’re right that recording while driving isn’t great, but at least he stopped when she asked him to.
thesporkeffect@lemmy.world 4 months ago
Heh heh. Because of her weird feet.
grasshopper_mouse@lemmy.world 4 months ago
I’m horrific at math, but even I know this shit. I do feel for her though. When you suck at math, even if the answer is easy and you have it right, you constantly second guess yourself because getting the right answer feels too easy, so surely I’m wrong, right? Because it’s math and I’m always wrong.
antlion@lemmy.dbzer0.com 4 months ago
If you go 80 mph on the way there, and immediately turn around and go 60 mph on the way back, what is your average speed for the 160 mile trip?
Tap for spoiler
68.6 mph
Masamune@lemmy.world 4 months ago
Instructions unclear. Tried to do a 180 degree turn at 80 mph. Trip was much shorter than expected.
blackluster117@possumpat.io 4 months ago
I couldn’t get past her starting the mental math. “If I run a mile in 8 mins…” This lady can vote, drive a car, and purchase a firearm. We’re so fucked.
some_guy@lemmy.sdf.org 4 months ago
Eight hundred thousand years. You just move the decimal to get the answer. Once you know that trick, a lot of math is really easy.
TempermentalAnomaly@lemmy.world 4 months ago
This one question breaks American brains.
2 cars approach each other, with 20 km between them. The speed of each car is 10 kmph. At 20 km apart from each, a fly starts traveling from one car towards another at 15 kmph. Once it reaches the other car, it turns back and starts towards the first car. It continues to do this until the cars meet/collide. How much distance does the fly cover in total?/s
AcesFullOfKings@feddit.uk 4 months ago
[deleted]TempermentalAnomaly@lemmy.world 4 months ago
Totally. There’s a funny story about this question going around the Princeton Advanced Studies center. Some would see the trick, but many would get stuck on trying to add up each portion of the journey.
And then they took the question to von Neumann. It begins to consider it and our come 15 km. They’re elated and say, you must have gotten the trick. “What trick? All I did was add up the geometric sum.” And a couple of insanely smart people left dumbfounded at how smart von Neumann was.
Of course, he could have been pulling their leg.
linearchaos@lemmy.world 4 months ago
There’s tires with a circumference of 13.2 ft… Chef’s Kiss
grrgyle@slrpnk.net 4 months ago
Reminds me of the old “how much does a tonne of feathers weigh?”
BruceTwarzen@lemm.ee 4 months ago
SkyezOpen@lemmy.world 4 months ago
Feathers are heavier because you also have to carry the weight of what you did to those birds.
gandalf_der_12te@discuss.tchncs.de 4 months ago
That’s called “being caught off guard”.
Or maybe she was just messing with him, who knows.
Illuminostro@lemmy.world 4 months ago
What’s the tensile strength of a rainbow?
errer@lemmy.world 4 months ago
Someone forward this to Shaq, he’ll set her straight!
magnetosphere@fedia.io 4 months ago
He’s not even phrasing it as a riddle. The answer is right there in the question. That poor woman.
MonkderDritte@feddit.de 4 months ago
More than a hour.
A_Very_Big_Fan@lemmy.world 4 months ago
She’s a national treasure. I wonder how she’s doing these days lol
palmtrees2308@lemmy.one 4 months ago
But she will better college than any college in india
just_another_person@lemmy.world 4 months ago
Sooooo…yeah. I dated someone once who was brilliant in some ways, and not in others, but I very much loved them still, though our intellectual conversations were kept to a minimum.
After watching a particularly violent Western movie where a lot of horses were injured, shot, or killed, she seemed kind of disturbed. She was dead quiet after leaving the theater, and just seemed like she was thinking through it all and processing the story.
Halfway through the drive home, out of nowhere she says “Where do all the horses go?”
The question kind of threw me, and waited a second to process what she had just asked me. I thought I misheard her, and there was a noticably uncomfortable gap in me reply.
“What? How do you mean?”
“Where do all the horses go after the movie? Like, what do they do with all the dead horses?”
In that moment, I froze, and I started to kind of chuckle as I thought she was making a joke. Then I realized the was serious. A 30-year old was asking me this question. A self-admitted movie buff, she called herself.
It was then that I knew this relationship wasn’t viable long-term.
bionicjoey@lemmy.ca 4 months ago
TBF there were some movies in the past where horses died during production (I believe Ben Hur was one of them). That’s why nowadays there is a disclaimer saying no animals were harmed making the movie.
just_another_person@lemmy.world 4 months ago
This was not an older movie, and if she’d ever watched the credits of a modern movie (as a movie buff), she would have certainly seen all the stunt coordination credits, and the tag about no animals being harmed.
BenFranklinsDick@lemmy.world 4 months ago
Bullet dodged
PlasticExistence@lemmy.world 4 months ago
A horse-sized bullet
funkless_eck@sh.itjust.works 4 months ago
They shoot them with actor bullets, which are only pretending to he lethal, of course.
ikidd@lemmy.world 4 months ago
Tell that to Alec Baldwin…
Anticorp@lemmy.world 4 months ago
When I was about 5 years old I saw a movie that was based on a true story about a blind man. The man was played by the first Paul Atreides actor, Kyle MacLachlan. So then when I saw him in an alien sci-fi some time later I was freaked out. I asked my mom how he could do everything in the movie if he’s blind. See, I thought that if a movie was based on a true story that the real person from the story was the actor portraying them in the movie. But I was 5 years old when I learned about movie magic. It’s kind of crazy that your ex-girlfriend hadn’t learned that well into adulthood.
BowtiesAreCool@lemmy.world 4 months ago
Sorry I’m still trying to get over describing Kyle Maclachlan as “the first Paul Atreides actor” lol
Illuminostro@lemmy.world 4 months ago
A girl my friend dated once asked why islands don’t float away. She was in Gifted classes.
AnUnusualRelic@lemmy.world 4 months ago
Don’t they bury them with the dead actors that rode them? That’s how it used to be done.
gandalf_der_12te@discuss.tchncs.de 4 months ago
tbh, that’s a fair question. I would have asked them same thing, if only to hope you’d say something like:
“What, no. The horses didn’t die. It was a movie. They pretended to kill them.”
just_another_person@lemmy.world 4 months ago
Think about the first part of that question though.
bamfic@lemmy.world 4 months ago
youtube.com/watch?v=gDWCyknwUzY