He’s not even phrasing it as a riddle. The answer is right there in the question. That poor woman.
Okay, but what if the car was also 80 miles long?
Ride that snake.
Well let’s see. If I’m 5’11" and I can run a mile in 8 minutes…
Instantaneously!
I’m horrific at math, but even I know this shit. I do feel for her though. When you suck at math, even if the answer is easy and you have it right, you constantly second guess yourself because getting the right answer feels too easy, so surely I’m wrong, right? Because it’s math and I’m always wrong.
Someone forward this to Shaq, he’ll set her straight!
What’s the tensile strength of a rainbow?
Reminds me of the old “how much does a tonne of feathers weigh?”
Feathers are heavier because you also have to carry the weight of what you did to those birds.
Eight hundred thousand years. You just move the decimal to get the answer. Once you know that trick, a lot of math is really easy.
1hr, I refuse to watch the video.
yeah I can do without watching a YT video to listen to someone say stupid things.
it’s bad enough knowing that some people literally make better money creating bullshit YT and TV shows than I make at my job.
The best part is “the wheels must turn 400 times per mile” hauahauhahah
It is quite devastating when you see people lacking even the most basic or common of knowledge. No wonder the world is in a state that it is in. You can’t expect people to make changes when they barely even know how the world works.
I mean some people just freeze up around numbers. That’s not the end of the world as long as they know that they suck at that.
Like I’m a programmer and I’m like comically bad at math. Like 3 Stooges bad. If I’m forced to do math on the spot I will expand a lot of energy figuring out exactly the wrong thing.
Same! Senior dev here with both dyscalculia and dysgraphia. Numbers literally transpose for me, for example when I’m filling out a restaurant receipt and calculating tip+total. It’s wild.
And yet it didn’t keep him from marrying her. True love
I’m sure she’s a nice girl, but I don’t think I could bear such a large intellectual gap for too long. Stuff like this becomes frustrating quite quickly. But then again, in their case it might not be too big of a gap anyway. Understanding the basic principles behind measuring units does not make him Einstein.
Or he had the same reaction as her. Had it explained to him and is now passing on the fun.
This was painful to watch, I would have stopped and asked her to continue on foot.
He didn’t marry her for her brains apparently. But why is no one pissed he is filming this while driving? He is just a big dumb ass.
This video is also 12 years old
Then we should be so harsh, there’s been a lot of inflation since then. I don’t even know what 80 mph 12 years ago is today.
58 minutes?
They’re stealing our time!
Maybe there’s a reason why the comments are off on that vid :D
You’re right that recording while driving isn’t great, but at least he stopped when she asked him to.
If you find a woman who likes giving BJ’s, marry her.
Ahh, haven’t seen this in a long time.
Though you kinda have to give to her, that her initial guesstimate was 58 minutes. That’s just 3.3% error, not bad considering the ridiculous way she arrived at that number. Maybe she’s really good at estimates but can’t do any precise math. She might even be an engineer.
Based on the title, it seeks like the question was 80 mph. Not 60
You’re right, it would take an hour to go 60 miles at 60mph. Try the math again with 80 miles at 80mph.
I did. 58/80 != ~3.3%
Can someone please tell me what I’m misunderstanding?
If you’re traveling 80 miles PER HOUR, you will travel 80 miles in an hour, or 60 minutes. She guessed 58 minutes.
I see! I misread their comment! I thought it was 80mph for 60 minutes
Oh lord
You are leaking American education all over this comment man
Think about this really hard again.
Getting to recreate the video in the comments really is special.
And people wonder why America is the way it is. A grown ass adult married woman can’t even grasp the concept of mph. The school system has majorly failed this woman. It’s like even the concept of critical thinking has been eradicated.
“Think about how dumb the average American is. Then think that half of em are dumber than that!”
- George Carlin
I’ve seen this same video with two UK girls doing this
Well yah but that makes sense who outside of America knows what a mile is.
The UK also uses miles, unfortunately. We started the process of adopting the metric system and then apparently decided it was simply too French to stomach
I’m in Canada, but what does it matter if it’s mph or kph? The concept is the same.
It’s a joke.
I hope so, or we’ve got the woman from the video commenting here.
If you told me that the miles Americans use for distance and the miles in mph are two different distances I wouldn’t straight up believe you, but still double check later
You’ll never guess what system we use for distance in the UK!
She was thinking critically.
I couldn’t get past her starting the mental math. “If I run a mile in 8 mins…” This lady can vote, drive a car, and purchase a firearm. We’re so fucked.
That’s called “being caught off guard”.
Or maybe she was just messing with him, who knows.
