At work I created a simple spreadsheet to help with a task where you have to add two values in a row together and then subtract a third and then round up to the next multiple of eight. All of these are whole numbers, most of which are less than thirty. A substantial number of the people I work with clearly struggle with it and I’m constantly finding mistakes from when they use it stemming from bad arithmetic.
Realizing this was actually what made me give up on organizing here more than anything else. If Americans can’t do first grade level arithmetic no wonder they’re so clueless as to how badly they’re getting screwed over.
At work I created a simple spreadsheet to help with a task where you have to add two values in a row together and then subtract a third and then round up to the next multiple of eight. All of these are whole numbers, most of which are less than thirty. A substantial number of the people I work with clearly struggle with it and I’m constantly finding mistakes from when they use it stemming from bad arithmetic.
Realizing this was actually what made me give up on organizing here more than anything else. If Americans can’t do first grade level arithmetic no wonder they’re so clueless as to how badly they’re getting screwed over.
people turning down raises because they don’t understand tax brackets