"That being said, I think academic math education is important, I just wish was treated properly."
My personal experience was not an issue with disliking advanced mathematics, but an issue with the school's inability to cater to my general learning needs. Had motivation and ability been the only factors then I might have ended up as a mathematician. Looking back though, budgeting may be less fun but far more widely useful than quadratic equations. Especially for those who struggled with the advanced stuff anyway and were less likely to learn budgeting by themselves.
"Darn. I was hoping you had an awesome blonde joke ;)"
I'm pretty sure the correlation of feminists and people who make blonde jokes weighs against me on that one. I suppose you could give Capitalist Lion Tamer the benefit of the doubt and presume they may also be referring to gay men, but in general the ratio of blonde jokes that implicitly refer to woman (often merely by stating 'she' in the punchline) seems rather high.
Which, as an increasingly aside point of note, would be less of an issue if our language wasn't inherently sexist in allowing (and historically encouraging) 'he' as a generic pronoun.
Seriously though, if you want to know whether I add anything to these discussions then you are free to read my comment history (a courtesy I shall point out that I am unable to pay you). I would have liked to be more involved in this one but, alas, was rather late in arriving.
"Faith-based FUD. You have no idea what the investigation has turned up. Obviously they are planning on proving an underlying crime if they're claiming he violated 18 U.S.C. 2."
Mike was pointing out that they can't do something unless something else is true, which was a perfectly accurate statement. You, on the other hand, are making an outright assumption and yet have the gall to claim he is the one basing things on faith.
"If I'm right then I have to say: well played, whoever started this! It's like a reverse strawman! You set up a totally false argument for your own side so that we would waste a bunch of time debunking it... fucking brilliant!"
That's why I liked your earlier post. It headed off further confusion by avoiding ambiguity and providing a detailed explanation. Sure, that takes longer, but if someone had done it in the first place then there might have been a lot fewer comments.
"The separation of effort and reward just keeps getting bigger and bigger, while the tangible connections (cash, a cheque, numbers on a screen) get weaker and weaker."
I would suggest a good measure against that is budgeting. It might help if schools actually considered teaching the skill a priority. In my experience advanced mathematics gets a higher priority than the ability to understand a balance sheet or produce a financial statement.
"The web user doesn't need to go any further once he reaches that website."
Technically, by the standard you're setting they don't need to go any further once they've sat down at the computer. Oh, you mean figuratively. Like "the idiots below" did.
"He's found exactly what he wants: the ability to click and break the law."
I guess when we all get personal transporters then that would make actual maps and directions criminal too.
"It isn't what she is missing, it is what she is compensating for. Musically, she is pretty much a null, not more talented than the next person in line"
I'm doomed to address this every time Lady Gaga is mentioned. (Thank you copy/paste).
While I'm not a great fan of her style of music, to claim that she has no talent is funny. She started playing piano at four and was performing at open mike nights at fourteen. 'Oh, well that doesn't mean she was any good' I imagine you will say, but then she was admitted to the Tisch School of the Arts when she was seventeen. If you're still not convinced then here's an early clip, which I like a lot more than her famous stuff.
"I think that the biggest problem is that most of humanity, ESPECIALLY we Americans, don't define or separate fun and happiness properly. It took me about 10 years to get the idea right and it was only by finding other people who had figured it out that I could as well."
I'm reminded of that stupid 'do blondes really have more fun?' joke. The premise being that blondes might be better off (happier) because they're having more fun.
"With long-term happiness we rely more on our higher reasoning abilities to connect the effort spent with the reward gained"
I wonder what impact academic success has on this. As far as long term goal/reward relationships go, school would seem to be a prime example at an important developmental point. Many people seem to end up drifting through school for the sake of it, which may be more than a waste of time in effecting their long term prospects.
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My personal experience was not an issue with disliking advanced mathematics, but an issue with the school's inability to cater to my general learning needs. Had motivation and ability been the only factors then I might have ended up as a mathematician. Looking back though, budgeting may be less fun but far more widely useful than quadratic equations. Especially for those who struggled with the advanced stuff anyway and were less likely to learn budgeting by themselves.
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I'm pretty sure the correlation of feminists and people who make blonde jokes weighs against me on that one. I suppose you could give Capitalist Lion Tamer the benefit of the doubt and presume they may also be referring to gay men, but in general the ratio of blonde jokes that implicitly refer to woman (often merely by stating 'she' in the punchline) seems rather high.
Which, as an increasingly aside point of note, would be less of an issue if our language wasn't inherently sexist in allowing (and historically encouraging) 'he' as a generic pronoun.
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Ditto.
See what I did there?
Seriously though, if you want to know whether I add anything to these discussions then you are free to read my comment history (a courtesy I shall point out that I am unable to pay you). I would have liked to be more involved in this one but, alas, was rather late in arriving.
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That may explain a lot.
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Mike was pointing out that they can't do something unless something else is true, which was a perfectly accurate statement. You, on the other hand, are making an outright assumption and yet have the gall to claim he is the one basing things on faith.
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I'm unsure what you mean. Didn't ICE write the complaint?
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Fair enough, so ICE did bring it up.
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That's why I liked your earlier post. It headed off further confusion by avoiding ambiguity and providing a detailed explanation. Sure, that takes longer, but if someone had done it in the first place then there might have been a lot fewer comments.
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I would suggest a good measure against that is budgeting. It might help if schools actually considered teaching the skill a priority. In my experience advanced mathematics gets a higher priority than the ability to understand a balance sheet or produce a financial statement.
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Yes; I was implying that the whole idea is laughable.
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Technically, by the standard you're setting they don't need to go any further once they've sat down at the computer. Oh, you mean figuratively. Like "the idiots below" did.
"He's found exactly what he wants: the ability to click and break the law."
I guess when we all get personal transporters then that would make actual maps and directions criminal too.
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Is that a rhetorical question? I would hate to spoil it by answering.
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She even writes other artist's songs.
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I'm doomed to address this every time Lady Gaga is mentioned. (Thank you copy/paste).
While I'm not a great fan of her style of music, to claim that she has no talent is funny. She started playing piano at four and was performing at open mike nights at fourteen. 'Oh, well that doesn't mean she was any good' I imagine you will say, but then she was admitted to the Tisch School of the Arts when she was seventeen. If you're still not convinced then here's an early clip, which I like a lot more than her famous stuff.
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I'm reminded of that stupid 'do blondes really have more fun?' joke. The premise being that blondes might be better off (happier) because they're having more fun.
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I wonder what impact academic success has on this. As far as long term goal/reward relationships go, school would seem to be a prime example at an important developmental point. Many people seem to end up drifting through school for the sake of it, which may be more than a waste of time in effecting their long term prospects.
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Indeed it is. I think you missed my point. Oh well, it wasn't a serious one.
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Isn't that the whole point of this story?
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