I find the lack of intelligence depressing

[aprildog18]

OT:Ok, I thought some people would get that question wrong because they read it too quickly or had a brain fart, but I didn't think like 35% of the facebook population would get it wrong.

1+1x0=1 and (1+1)x0=0 Therefore, 1+1+1+11+1+1+1x0 does not equal 0.

EDIT: took out something I thought was a bit too mean.

 

[zehydra]

I wouldn't call them unintelligent, I'd say they're probably uneducated in math. I'm sure some of them ARE educated in math, and just aren't terribly bright, but to automatically assume that is fallacious.d

 

[artanis_neravar]

I hope Artanis_neravar was joking...

OT:Ok, I thought some people would get that question wrong because they read it too quickly or had a brain fart, but I didn't think like 35% of the facebook population would get it wrong.

9+3 =12, 12*2=24, 48/24=2 how is that bad?

 

[artanis_neravar]

Ok, I've ran the question through my head a few times as well as through a calculator and I still get 0.
Tried it 2 ways:
1+1+1+!+1 etc x0 = 0 as well as:
1+1+1+1+1 etc +(1x0) = 0

I've always been taught that multiplying ANY number by zero equals 0

I'm with the 900,000+ people on this one unless someone can please show me how they got around the laws of numeracy by multiplying by 0 at the end and still getting a number above 0

1+1+1+1+1+1+1+1+1+1+1-1+1+1+1+1+1*0
becomes
1+1+1+1+1+1+1+1+1+1-1+1+1+1+1+1+0
after this it's 10-1+5 or 14
Note: I may have missed some 1's in writing it

 

[Dr Snakeman]

How many people do you think would give more than a millisecond of thought to a math problem on facebook? 99% of those people know "Please Excuse My Dear Aunt Sally," and should a real math issue come up they'd remember it. Stop generalizing people as idiots based on a single flawed experiment to try and prove how much better than them you are. It's conceited, unfair, and it won't make you any friends.

Quoted for truth. Really, OP, this isn't "lack of intelligence", this is you looking for anything you can find to make yourself feel smugly superior to all the "lesser" people out there. This doesn't test intelligence, it's a trick question intended to trip people up.

If you want something to justify misanthropy, this ain't it.

 

[Littlee300]

Lack of mathematical prowess is small factor in the broad range of "intelligence". Most people forget about PEMDAS when they enter the real world. Way to generalize.

Exactly. This just proves they had a fact mixed up in their head.
Edit: The OP is just being dramatic if you ask me. "Oooh this world is full of drooling idiots"

 

[Nekron_X]

Ok, I've ran the question through my head a few times as well as through a calculator and I still get 0.
Tried it 2 ways:
1+1+1+!+1 etc x0 = 0 as well as:
1+1+1+1+1 etc +(1x0) = 0

I've always been taught that multiplying ANY number by zero equals 0

I'm with the 900,000+ people on this one unless someone can please show me how they got around the laws of numeracy by multiplying by 0 at the end and still getting a number above 0

it's because you multiply the (1x0) first then you add the ones and subtract where you have to.

 

[Callate]

It's not really even a matter of mathematical computation so much as notation. Yeah, it would be nice if people remembered the order in which such calculations are supposed to be completed, but people who actually want their calculations to be completed correctly would put the final calculation in parenthesis for clarity.

I still remember "socatoa" from high school trig, but I wouldn't presume that to make me intellectually superior to someone who did not who or who had never taken such a class.

 

[J-dog42]

Yea to be honest, I kind of forget about all that stuff to. I don't know what PEMDAS is but I assume it is the equivalent of BEDMAS which is what I was taught at school. Brackets, Exponents, Division, Multiplication, Addition, Subtraction. I guess the P is something like Parentheses and the Division and Multiplication have been switched.

 

[DarkRyter]

Edit:

Never mind. I am a colossal idiot.

 

[badgersprite]

Maths was my best subject in high school by a long shot, and I was in the top 2% of the state in it, but I forgot practically everything to do with it after I left, because, unless you do a degree in a mathematical field or get employed in a fundamentally maths based job, you don't end up using math that much in real life. Calculators and computers do practically every computation in your life, so those mathematical faculties don't get exercise unless it's something you're actively doing.

In other words, these people could just as easily have not practiced mathematics in a long time. People will suck at anything if they haven't practiced it in years.

 

[sergnb]

Implying that question is about intelligence and not simple observation

 

[vrbtny]

Ok, I realise facebook isn't the place to go for intelligence but seriously...

This is one those vote quiz things that goes around. If you look the answer 0 is winning on almost a million. This means almost a million people since this stared, a week ago, cannot do simple maths.

What's more is this is just those on facebook who've seen this and bothered to answer. This is a seriously depressing realisation of what humanity is becoming.

Edited to remove typo in title.

Comment retracted due to me being fed up of having my inbox filled with people explaining what I've done wrong.

 

[Ando85]

Damn I tried it but I missed the minus sign just because I assumed it was all pluses. I don't see that as a lack of intelligence as much as just not noticing something. If I was taking a math test or something and saw that problem I'd analyze it more carefully and would of got it right.

 

[Kadoodle]

Don't inflate your ego too much on this. These "simple" maths questions are actually based around fundamental comprehension issues i.e, it's not the math itself, but the language of math that's been tested here.

I wouldn't consider myself stupid, but I had to think about this question for longer then I deem comfortable.

Exactly what I was gonna say. The way in which the question is written is meant to cause careless error.

 

[ntw3001]

Lack of mathematical prowess is small factor in the broad range of "intelligence". Most people forget about PEMDAS when they enter the real world. Way to generalize.

no. you can't do simple day-to-day equations without this, it's such a basic and important part of math that you don't ever forget.

To be fair, you can't do simple day to day equations in any way at all, and won't be able to until they exist.

For my second paragraph, nobody had any investment in answering this question correctly. If there were any benefit to being right, people would read the question more thoroughly and almost all the answers would most likely be correct. Even people who don't remember BIDMAS would think to look it up.

You might notice that barely anybody answered 16. That means almost everybody who bothered to check though the obnoxious string of ones actually read the question correctly. The sum is intentionally constructed to discourage that kind of thorough inspection. I'd say the people who don't pay close attention to Facebook quizzes are not necessarily less intelligent than those who do.

Oh yeah, and if the OP finds that Facebook isn't the place for intelligence, I'm going to guess that that's knee-jerk, poorly thought-through antipopulist scorn. Dryly observing that the little segment of social network that you see is populated by idiots isn't really sticking it to the man. Unless you are yourself a man.

 

[Denamic]

Knowledge =/= intelligence.
One could complain about your intelligence, seeing as you equated ignorance to stupidity.

 

[Vanguard_Ex]

Lack of mathematical prowess is small factor in the broad range of "intelligence". Most people forget about PEMDAS when they enter the real world. Way to generalize.

no. you can't do simple day-to-day equations without this, it's such a basic and important part of math that you don't ever forget.

No, YOU might not have. Other people may well do.

 

[Varya]

This isn't a lack of intelligence, not even lack of mathematical intelligence.
First there's bound to be a bunch just glancing, thinking "oh, it's times 0, so it's 0". I do this all the time, and I know for a fact I'm around average+ on intelligence, and I was a killer at math in school, but I have a short attention span, and tend to do errors on easy tasks.
Then there's the group getting the right answer, but thinking it's a trick question, and not bothering to double-check, so they answer 0 not to seem like they fall for the trick.
Then there are the ones that simply forget how BEDMAS works. BEDMAS itself has nothing to do with math, it's an arbitrary system, math is logical. Understanding of math and remembering BEDMAS is un-related. Yes, it's sad so many don't know remember it, but most people that doesn't use math on a daily basis (like me) don't refer to calculations when we need to figure out something. And if we do, and forget how to use BEDMAS it's irrelevant, since we wrote it down ourselves, and thereby don't need BEDMAS to know when to multiply or add. BEDMAS is used so that I can write a problem, and anyone can solve it without extra explanations. As long as we can keep track of our own thinking BEDMAS isn't necessary to remember in everyday life.