Comment by techpineapple
6 days ago
"it's also possible the average person is _more_ numerate because they can play around with a calculator and quickly build intuition."
This is not actually possible.
6 days ago
"it's also possible the average person is _more_ numerate because they can play around with a calculator and quickly build intuition."
This is not actually possible.
Why? I am honestly befuddled with this response. manually computing arithmetic is not necessary to reason about numbers.
> manually computing arithmetic is not necessary to reason about numbers
It absolutely is. If you can't add or subtract, what reasoning are you doing that is worthwhile?
You can grasp the concept without executing the mechanics. I don't see how that's difficult to grasp.
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