Why should we have ANY faith in the human race...

[bluepilot]

Okay, so you understand maths and write a coherent sentence in English. Well done.

However, do you know the Spanish word for pineapple? Can you name the bordering countries of Hungary? Can you explain the gerund?

The point I am trying to make is that everyone has different skills and not everyone will know the basics of everything. I for one am terrible at maths and spelling so when it is important I get someone who is much better at these things than me to double check my work. Faith in humanity is needed because no one person can know everything. Even when you google some infomation on the Internet you have to trust the person who typed it.

Belittling people for their lack of knowledge in a certain subject is not very helpful to either the critical or the critized. If you do feel so strongly about it though, why don't you set up at BODMAS maths class at school to teach those who struggle with this concept. I am sure you will find this much more satisfying than contributing your concerns on an Internet forum.

I would also propose that one question on Facebook is not sufficient basis for research on people's math skills

 

[Enslave_All_Elves]

What is the alternative? A bullet to the temple?

Screw that.

 

[Woodsey]

"Why should we have ANY faith in the human race..."

Because we're not all 13-year-olds QQing on the internet?

 

[OmniscientOstrich]

I don't know, why should I have any faith in the OP, when they can't even think to use the search bar?

 

[uzo]

I have faith in humanity because 'He' has.







(I'm speaking, of course, of the God Emperor of Mankind)

 

[Grabbin Keelz]

Maybe the x0 is supposed to be a face as if to say "Jeez, I can't believe millions of people are actually taking this stupid quiz x0"

 

[Ragsnstitches]

I haven't lost faith in mankind... but I lost faith in you.

Or should I say, you have diminished any potential of me having faith in you.

 

[fletch_talon]

Because getting an unimportant math problem wrong on facebook is not an adequate measure of a human's (or the human race's) worth, reliability or decency.

 

[Sexual Harassment Panda]

Where does faith come into anything? Be smart, except what is...work with it.

 

[SenseOfTumour]

Every day, millions of people are too busy donating blood, filling in donor organ forms, giving money to charity, helping neighbours and friends, and trying to make other people's lives better, to have time to fuck about with a sum that's designed to catch people out who aren't paying attention just so other people can go 'ha, dumbass'.

I guess it balances out like that.

However, the front page headline of the Daily Mail today was 'Weeping Foxy is freed to make a fortune', essentially pushing the idea that a murderer got away with it, and now she's going to make millions from her obvious guilt. Also, using Foxy to suggest that she's a sexy murderer. I sure as hell lose faith in there being any humanity in certain newspaper offices, and it's being leeched daily from the readers.

This the day after they published online that she'd been found guilty, and had to print apologies.

 

[Naeo]

You do realize that by claiming this makes you lose faith in humanity, you're being pretty damn ignorant of what exactly you're looking at? A long series of identical characters become difficult for people to identify distinctly; go outside, look at a brick wall with fairly uniform color, and count how many bricks tall it is without pointing or using some other visual aid to keep your place. People don't take much time on this sort of thing and are naturally going to slip up in counting things because of the visual cue.

And the people that say "zero" probably are not the sharpest or are not at the age where they've learned order of operations yet. So if you're going to talk about losing faith in humanity because people are bad at math, pick an example that is not designed to trick people into a wrong answer.

Also, you should have faith in humanity because the vast, overwhelming majority of people are not that bad. If you say "oh no that's wrong" then you clearly have either been hanging out around the worst people on earth, have not been hanging out around/actually meeting people, or are trying too hard to be "cool" and "jaded" and "disenchanted with the world". You should have faith in people because dumbasses and heartless monsters represent approximately none of the actual population.

 

[The-Epicly-Named-Man]

Because you are human. /thread

 

[The Breadcrab]

Not this sh*t again.

Give me responses to a math question that isn't a gigantic, pointless troll attempt and then we can talk.

 

[somonels]

...when sh*t like this is allowed to fly?

Out of 4,7 million people, only 1,6 millions manage to get this simple question right.

Judging by this, none at all.

 

[Scarim Coral]

So you're getting work up over this? I can assure you there are more worses thing to lose faith at.
OT- Simple because just being depress about having no faith in humanity will not get your far. Sure it not like I happy and out going with my life but at least I'm not gloomy over it.

 

[AdumbroDeus]

You

...when sh*t like this is allowed to fly?

Out of 4,7 million people, only 1,6 millions manage to get this simple question right.

Really?

The problem is set up to be deceptive in multiple ways, yes it's easy if you take 5 minutes to think about it, but this is ****ing facebook, people respond to things while barely thinking about it all the time.


It hides the minus sign, it places the "x0" at a location which makes people automatically think there's brackets, seriously. 99% of the people who made that error made it without thinking, sure there may be a few people who make that mistake out of an honest misunderstanding of order of operations, but that's rare.


Dumb thread is dumb.

 

[Fiz_The_Toaster]

The term 'faith in humanity' should be forever banned from the English language.
Or at least on this site.

Yes please, I'm getting really tired of this kind of cynicism.

OT: You make it sound like we live in a constant shit hole all because some people don't know how to do math properly. It's facebook, when did anyone start taking facebook seriously?

Because there are people doing good things that you may not be aware of, and there is actually some good in the world. You lost faith in people doing math properly, not humanity, big difference.