Trouble With Math? Maybe You Should Get Your Brain Zapped

ScienceNOW ^ | 16 May 2013 | Emily Underwood

[Bobalu]

[gorush]

I once had a B.F.Skinner type flash (9th grade) when I completely understood all of the arithmetic,algebra,math,trigonometry,calculus after having struggled with those concepts previously. I’ve made my living since exploiting those skills.

[21st Century Crusader]

Instead of holding the pitiful public schools and unionized teachers responsible, we're now supposed to go get electro shock "treatments". Just line eveyone up to get their brain zapped by the government - no danger there! /sarc

Is it covered by the abomination known as 0bamacare?

[Ditter]

My math skills are terrible but now I am too old to care.

[bgill]

What could possibly go wrong?

[Jyotishi]

“Trouble With Math? Maybe You Should Get Your Brain Zapped”

Cool! Is there an app for that?

[max americana]

Same thing happened with me back in HS. I sucked at math, yet parents were both accountants. Then it just happened, I just called it an epiphany where every math equation looked easy. Add to the mystery was that the HS bullies who beat up other kids for their lunch money were math geniuses..

[gorush]

It was an almost orgasmic moment for me, I’ll never forget it...and that was back in the early ‘60’s.

[SIDENET]

Trouble With Math? Maybe You Should Get Your Brain Zapped

"Learn math, or we're gonna shock the livin' sh** outta you!"

[RedMDer]

We are Free Republic!
Less than $15k to go!!
Let's git 'er done!!

We are Free Republic!
Less than $15k to go!!
Let's git 'er done!!

[Billthedrill]

I do not need help with arithmetic, especially not the sort of help that involves 20 minutes of electricity over five days, which is a total of 182 minutes...no, wait, it's 41 minutes...(grabbing pencil) times 5, carry the two, it's 239 minutes...dang it (grabbing calculator) it's five times the number of minutes in a day minus the time you're not being zapped plus an allowance for Coriolus Force... times Boltzmann's Constant...it's...6.023 x 10²³...no wait, that's the number of moles in my yard... 42 MINUTES! What do I win?

[Patriot95]

But how do you KNOW you’re too old to care?

:)

[Pearls Before Swine]

A six month boost? Reminds me of “Flowers for Algernon.”

[Pearls Before Swine]

A six month boost? Reminds me of “Flowers for Algernon.”

[Ditter]

I know that I have forgotten most of the math that I learned and I KNOW I don't care. I have a calculator.
Trust me I'm old! :D

[ThomasThomas]

I have been zapped a few times playing with electronic stuff. Leaving a auto coil laying can be fun with friends. Maybe this is why many guys do better in math than girls. Girls are too smart to pick up the coil.

[glock rocks]

Sarah Hall Ingram says she’s not good at math ...

[dr_lew]

... the participants memorized arbitrary mathematical "facts," such as 4#10 = 23, then performed a more sophisticated task requiring multiple steps of arithmetic, also based on memorized symbols.

Sounds like a Monty Python skit!

[Still Thinking]

The electrical current slowly ramped up to about 1 milliamp—a tiny fraction of the voltage of an AA battery

If small electrical currents increase your ability to grasp technical stuff, this guy needs to grab his ignition coil. If I introduced him to Eli the Iceman, he'd probably eat him.