Darth Wong wrote:
Well, in any case, any jackass who presumes to correct the scientific community and doesn't know how to do a piddly-ass basic algebra operation like completing the square should shut the fuck up.
It's one thing for someone to know and respect his own limitations and defer to scientists; that is a perfectly reasonable position and one which I can respect. However, it's quite another thing for someone to ignore his own limitations and think that he operates on the same intellectual level as scientists, or perhaps even a higher level, despite having the math skills of a child.
Very true, on some note, you see this happen less in Israel then in the U.S. I suppose I can relate this to the tradition here of High education and the benefit given to those people seen as 'saving the country'. However, there will always be jackasses who are convinced they are smart and they 'just arn't scienctifically minded' and therfor sprout about stuff they neither understand nor ever will.
Quickly skimming
Pisa archives(Pisa is an international organisation that tests High school students), the results arn't encouraging. Most OPEC countries do not do esspecially well(Belgium,Finland,Japan are listed as well preforming countries), with countries low in the list of math skills are Italy, Portugal and U.S.
Interesting to note, from skimming another paper on the website, is that U.S students are some of the most self-confident regarding their math skills.
Danish students are also the most confident in mathematics and only they and students from the United
States think about how well they do in mathematics in terms that are generally positive
Which seems kinda contradictory with their scores in the paper.
Countries which score the highest in these tests seem to have the lowest level of jackasses talking about how science is BS or supporting Creationism.
