I find the lack of intelligence depressing

[mirasiel]

wow, people got a poorly laid out maths problem wrong on one of those totally fucking retarded facebook polls, call the President, alert NORAD.

I'm more fucking dissapointed that you joined in on the facebook equivalent of chain-lettering and decided to try and flash your huge E-peen about it.

 

[Liquid Paradox]

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

1x0=0, so the question becomes 1+1+1+1+1+1+1+1+1+1-1+1+1+1+1+1+0

as far as people not answering correctly being idiots... well clearly the original poster is doing a great job at portraying himself as a cynical jerk. "I know the answer and you don't, therefore you're stoopid" That would be like me saying "Oh my god, like, 1 million people are stupid because they don't know the difference between the ego and the super ego! Boy that makes me depressed!"

 

[Phoenixlight]

Edited to remove typo in title.

It looks like you're depressing yourself then, I honestly don't care about what quizzes are popular on facebook though.

 

[DevilWithaHalo]

It might be a cultural misunderstanding. I've been questioning why everyone keeps using the terminology "maths", when in the US we'd drop the "s" as the correct short form. It's like all of you are speaking French to me. Replace culutral with perceptual and you've got an answer.

(Oddly though, I like screwing around with English majors here in the US I know by adding the "s" to the end of "math")

 

[ntw3001]

BEDMAS itself has nothing to do with math, it's an arbitrary system, math is logical.

I don't really know what you mean by that. The point of the Facebook question is to capitalise on the fact that applying functions in the wrong order results in different answers to the same question.

 

[Varya]

BEDMAS itself has nothing to do with math, it's an arbitrary system, math is logical.

I don't really know what you mean by that. The point of the Facebook question is to capitalise on the fact that applying functions in the wrong order results in different answers to the same question.

I mean that math is a constant. 1+1x3 will always be 4 But BEDMAS tells us how we write it. If we added before multiplying we'd have to write 1+(1x3) but the math would still be the same. Yes, there is logic to why BEDMAS is in that order, but it has nothing to do with math, per se.

Edit: To simplify. A basket with one egg and a basket with three eggs always equals four eggs, but if we write it 1+1x3 or 1+(1x3) is arbitrary. We could change it without making the actual math wrong.

 

[JoJo]

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.

Sorry to rain on your parade mate but that's an easy to mistake to make, I thought it was zero at first and not trying to sound full of myself but I study biological sciences at a well-known UK university (Exeter) and got 3 A's in science subjects at A-level. I'm hardly what you'd call dumb, most the people probably did similar to what I did, just thought of a quick answer without really checking the notation closely. Don't fear for humanity just yet =D

 

[rabidmidget]

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?

You saw the question as 48/(2*(9+3)), but due to the lack of parenthesis it is worked out as:

=(48/2) * (9+3)
=24 * 12
=288

The actual question from the earlier thread was slightly different and even more ambigious if I recall correctly.

 

[smearyllama]

I find the lack of intelliegnce depressing

i'll mark it up to a simple typo lol

i've seen that question too. posted a status update about it, basically calling everyone who answered 0 to be dumb and should go back to elementary school.

Well, we learned order of operations in sixth grade here, so maybe it's not all that bad.

OT: PEMDAS, guys, PEMDAS.

 

[Bad Cluster]

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 never deal with nothing in your "day-to-day equations". It's zero, nothing, it's not there, you simply don't. This is why some people are good at math and some are not, it's abstract and some people get thrown off by that.

 

[marurder]

This simple tests shows us a lot about the people who use Facebook - not that they are stupid. But lets look at the whys..

A - They didn't see the lone - in the middle
- Laziness
- Relied on assumption of the whole question without reading it
B - It's Facebook! Who cares? Lets just finish the silly little poll!
- Impatience

C - Math sux and so do u!!!!11111oneeleven This isn't math, it's arithmetic.
- Failure to understand basic mathematical formula


With the exception of perhaps C, I think all others wouldn't qualify as stupid, but in combination, they would.

 

[Sir Thomas Sean Connery]

Well, between missing the "-" sign and my temporary retardation making me forget PEDMSA, I got it wrong three times...

 

[monstersquad]

Wow, this makes me feel so mentally superior because I'm capable of high school math. Go undeserved righteous indignation!! Now tell me, if some of us are such intellectual juggernauts, why aren't we ruling the plebians who can't execute a simple equation? Bow before the math lords, rulers of Grade 12.

 

[DarklordKyo]

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.

You do realize that it's multiplied by 0 at the end, yes? That means that it equals 0.

 

[ntw3001]

BEDMAS itself has nothing to do with math, it's an arbitrary system, math is logical.

I don't really know what you mean by that. The point of the Facebook question is to capitalise on the fact that applying functions in the wrong order results in different answers to the same question.

I mean that math is a constant. 1+1x3 will always be 4 But BEDMAS tells us how we write it. If we added before multiplying we'd have to write 1+(1x3) but the math would still be the same. Yes, there is logic to why BEDMAS is in that order, but it has nothing to do with math, per se.

Edit: To simplify. A basket with one egg and a basket with three eggs always equals four eggs, but if we write it 1+1x3 or 1+(1x3) is arbitrary. We could change it without making the actual math wrong.

I thought you might mean that. I was going to say 'it's only arbitrary insofar as that mathematical notation as a whole is arbitrary', but I decided not to. I probably should have done.

Anyhow, I wouldn't agree that 'arbitrary' is quite the correct term. While mathematical truths may exist independently of their notation, the nature of that notation is governed by the necessary logic of its subject, not by some arcane tradition or ancient decision.

And in the example you've given, while there are infinite ways to correctly write a single number, that doesn't seem relevant. Altering the notation can also produce infinite different answers. The difference between writing 1+1x3 and 1+(1x3) is arbitrary, but the difference between those and (1+1)x3 is not. The only purpose of brackets in mathematical notation is to alter the order of functions, and by moving them it is possible to change the solution to an equation.

 

[Irony's Acolyte]

Well I really needed STR and CON, so I took INT as my dump stat. I mean, does a fighter really need INT at all?

OT: Wow, people got tricked by a purposefully misleading equation. What a surprise. Seriously, most people are going to skim it, notice the x0 at the end and go "Oh it's zero!". It's set up to evoke that response by putting a whole bunch of 1+1+1+... so that people won't want to read the whole thing and look for a short cut.

 

[ENKC]

I find the lack of intelliegnce depressing

i'll mark it up to a simple typo lol

i've seen that question too. posted a status update about it, basically calling everyone who answered 0 to be dumb and should go back to elementary school.

Well intelligence =/= education, and does it not strike you as ironic when you're not capitalising your sentences?

With brackets it would be zero. Easy mistake to make. I even misread it myself when I started replying to you, then realised I was seeing brackets that weren't there.

 

[WouldYouKindly]

Basic order of operations trick. Multiplication always comes before addition provided there are no parenthesis. When you stop doing the basics you forget them. Logarithms, trigonometric functions, and physics formulas are all things I can do eaisly, but 7+8 is the bane of my fucking existence. I can't do it quickly in my head anymore because of all the incredibly complex shit I've learned.

 

[Dr. wonderful]

It's 17.

Even my dumb ass could figure that out. >_<

No wait, It's 0.

Everything times 0 is freaking 0.

Time to go back to school!