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Honestly if you can't calculate things on an abacus you shouldn't be in the exam room tbh. Sure, calculators have been invented and have ultimately replaced the abacus in nearly every facet of day to day life, but surely you know how to add beads together?
We're letting kids use GPS to get to school now? What the street signs and constellations aren't good enough for you?
Let me rephrase it than - if someone is an idiot, they shouldn't be in the exam room. If you are concerned about it, it may be because you fit the category.
What makes people who didn't learn to read analog clocks idiots? If you have a thing about analog clocks, just keep it to yourself.
Or maybe because it's just stupid af to judge people's intelligence based on an unrelated life skill.
Wrong question. The correct would be: what make people who are too lazy or too stupid to learn the clock idiots - but that would be a rhetorical one.
Intelligence is an ability to obtain knowledge and skills. If someone lacks both, it is a strong indication of them not having enough intelligence to obtain them.
They do know how to read the clock (digital ones :) ) Again, it doesn't make them idiots or lazy for not learning something they don't really need to learn
What makes you think they don't have the ability to learn how to read analog clocks just because they don't? You might not know how ride a horse, but that doesn't mean you can't learn how to. Are you an idiot for not learning how to?
They also know how to use calculator, they just don't knot 2 times 2 is four without it. Neither have place during an exam.
Because if they did, they would have done during lessons to learn it, sweetie 🙄
Thanks for calling me a sweetie. Love u too. Forgetting is a thing. Unlike previous generations they are not as much exposed to analog ones. Therefore they don't need to. Digital clocks are used in electronic devices etc.
Except basic math is necessary since the brain is faster with smaller calculations and analog clock really isn't that much necessary anymore. They can be replaced.
*you
*analogue
*no one cares :)
Devolving to linguistic prescriptivism just proves you don't have an argument anymore lol
No, it shows that people who cannot read the clock are also unable to write.
You don’t know how to use an abacus? You must be an idiot.
No. Don't know how to use the clock? You shouldn't be in the exam room.
Except, they do know how to use a clock. Just not your favorite clock
Nope. They don't know how to use the clock. The one widely used.
Not the one widely used, but they do know how to use the clock. And they're not really that much more used than digital clocks. Therefore, it doesn't matter
Would it matter to you if they didn't know how to add and multiply without calculator?
It would cuz there's no better alternative. But analog clocks do have an alternative ........ Digital clocks
I guess spelling didn't matter to you either? 🙄
Calculator is an alternative to the mental arithmetic sweetie. Yes we still want kids to know that 2 times 2 is four without using a calculator. Go figure why.
Pointing out spelling mistakes is lame af. Yup it totally doesnt. Who cares lmfao
And there's no alternative which allows you to use it without any required prior knowledge on how to use it. And therefore we use the calculator as an alternative for larger calculations.
Because like I said, the mind is faster with smaller calculations. And, like I said, digital clocks are more convenient alternative to analog ones.
Yeah.... I can see why YOU are arguing clocks are too difficult 🤦
Now read again. Slowly.
Actually, you are the best argument why understanding the clock should be a requirement. 🤣🤣🤣
Never said that. I said they're harder to comprehend than digital ones. I do know how to read an analog clock. But it doesn't matter these days. Also, correcting spelling mistakes online is the corniest thing some1 can do.
*no one cares ~
Perhaps you'd want to do that. Or do u lack reading comprehension?
*you
U
Yikes.
Also, since you ran out of arguments and started correcting people's spelling, *then.
"yikes" what?
Passing exams is not an entitlement, it is an achievement. If someone is an idiot unable to understand the clock, they shouldn't be in the exam room in the first place - and they certainly shouldn't expect someone will start explaining clock to them when they are supposed to write an exam.
Why are you so adamant that reading an analog clock is required to pass an exam that doesn't feature any material related to reading analog clocks?
Why are you so adamant that reading is required at all? You could just watch ticktock instead after all.
:)
Edit: you didn't answer my question, by the way