• JCreazy@midwest.social
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    5 months ago

    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.

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      5 months ago

      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.

      • frozen@lemmy.frozeninferno.xyz
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        5 months ago

        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.