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.
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.
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.
But she will better college than any college in india
Someone forward this to Shaq, he’ll set her straight!
Reminds me of the old “how much does a tonne of feathers weigh?”
Feathers are heavier because you also have to carry the weight of what you did to those birds.
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.
1hr, I refuse to watch the video.
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.
The best part is “the wheels must turn 400 times per mile” hauahauhahah
This was painful to watch, I would have stopped and asked her to continue on foot.
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.
If you find a woman who likes giving BJ’s, marry her.
You’re right that recording while driving isn’t great, but at least he stopped when she asked him to.
Maybe there’s a reason why the comments are off on that vid :D
This video is also 12 years old
Then we should be so harsh, there’s been a lot of inflation since then. I don’t even know what 80 mph 12 years ago is today.
58 minutes?
They’re stealing our time!
And yet it didn’t keep him from marrying her. True love
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.
Or he had the same reaction as her. Had it explained to him and is now passing on the fun.
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.
She was thinking critically.
I’ve seen this same video with two UK girls doing this
Well yah but that makes sense who outside of America knows what a mile is.
I’m in Canada, but what does it matter if it’s mph or kph? The concept is the same.
It’s a joke.
I hope so, or we’ve got the woman from the video commenting here.
If you told me that the miles Americans use for distance and the miles in mph are two different distances I wouldn’t straight up believe you, but still double check later
You’ll never guess what system we use for distance in the UK!
The UK also uses miles, unfortunately. We started the process of adopting the metric system and then apparently decided it was simply too French to stomach
“Think about how dumb the average American is. Then think that half of em are dumber than that!”
- George Carlin
That’s called “being caught off guard”.
Or maybe she was just messing with him, who knows.
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
is it just 15km? The cars meet after an hour and the fly is going 15kmph for 1h, so all the bouncing back and forth is irrelevant. Feels like a trick question and I’m missing something though
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.
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
Instructions unclear. Tried to do a 180 degree turn at 80 mph. Trip was much shorter than expected.
Damn. Did you survive?
Nah that’s their ghost commenting.
Someone forward this to Shaq, he’ll set her straight!
He’s not even phrasing it as a riddle. The answer is right there in the question. That poor woman.
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.
