Considering that it seems ruffly half of the population is retarded now, it doesn’t surprise me that many might struggle with this simple problem.
“Think of how stupid the average person is, and realize half of them are stupider than that.”
— George Carlin
My sister teaches math to middle school kids in Baltimore. Because of a serious math teacher shortage, she is teaching a math class to high school seniors as well. They are 17 and 18 years old (probably a couple of 19 year olds in there, too).
Most of them cannot take a data set and determine if the data are linear. Half the class still asks “what is a function?” Some asked “What is linear?” Maybe ten percent can structure the data, examine it, and tell if it is linear. Note that this is simple ordered pair data [(1,1), (2,2), (3,3)] or [(1,2), (2,4), (3,6)]. No linear regression and correlation coefficients are required.
It is absolutely staggering how downright stupid these kids are. But they don’t worry because mama gets her “paycheck” from the government every week and they will, too.
Considering that it seems ruffly half of the population is retarded now, it doesn’t surprise me that many might struggle with this simple problem.
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