Fair point, but Americans score lower than several comparable countries, despite a higher GDP which one would hope would correlate to education. There are several reasons for this, but as an American, I’m just mentioning that it’s not a generational thing as much as a countrywide thing.
https://nces.ed.gov/fastfacts/display.asp?id=1
I think it’s nice to realize that people aren’t hardwired to understand math. There’s been no evolutionary selection for an understanding of the distributive property or knowledge of a dot product. Math can be difficult and we need to devote more resources to teaching it. Gen Alpha isn’t inherently less intelligent. Math is just hard and this person is probably seeing American Gen Alphas that have grown up in a society that does not value or invest in education the way it should. I don’t think that’s over generalizing as much as it’s drawing conclusions from available data.
you say that, but i always see europeans whine so much whenever imperial units are used anywhere because they can’t figure out how to multiply by .3048
People in general, but Americans specifically, can’t do basic math. Hence the infamous 1/3 pound burger: https://www.snopes.com/news/2022/06/17/third-pound-burger-fractions/
I love how your defense of over generalizing one group instantly devolved into over generalizing a different group.
If that group is Americans, it’s pretty on brand for Lemmy.
Yeah. People on Lemmy always do that
Fuckin’ Lemmers…
Fair point, but Americans score lower than several comparable countries, despite a higher GDP which one would hope would correlate to education. There are several reasons for this, but as an American, I’m just mentioning that it’s not a generational thing as much as a countrywide thing. https://nces.ed.gov/fastfacts/display.asp?id=1
I think it’s nice to realize that people aren’t hardwired to understand math. There’s been no evolutionary selection for an understanding of the distributive property or knowledge of a dot product. Math can be difficult and we need to devote more resources to teaching it. Gen Alpha isn’t inherently less intelligent. Math is just hard and this person is probably seeing American Gen Alphas that have grown up in a society that does not value or invest in education the way it should. I don’t think that’s over generalizing as much as it’s drawing conclusions from available data.
you say that, but i always see europeans whine so much whenever imperial units are used anywhere because they can’t figure out how to multiply by .3048
The other side to this line of logic is that Americans can’t divide by 10
that’s not how you convert from metric to imperial though. again the europeans failing at mathematics (then you divide by .3048)
edit also someone please tell me i got it wrong here i hadn’t had coffee yet and i don’t want to check that would be so funny
Lol