I don’t object to anything, but even with Squared there I might have been oblivious except for the “Math nerd humor” label
I notice something similar at Whole Foods when they sell salmon. The salmon that’s uncut is $X a pound and they will cut it to any size you want, whereas the precut salmon in plastic containers is $1.5X a pound.
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This is innumeracy mixed with ignorance of anatomy. Many people on social media and in comments think that it’s impossible for Britney Spears (5’4") to touch the shoulders of Victor Wembanyama (7’5").
Why would you put a cake in the oven at 120 degrees? 325 degrees maybe.
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Celsius?
(No, I did not check the math before asking.)
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248 degrees… closer to a temperature you’d bake a cake at, but still kind of low. Good guess though.
Canadian innumeracy, eh?
Plus, it looks like 60 degrees, not 120.
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180 C is a totally reasonable cake temperature. I guess we should all be eating a lot more pineapple upside down cake.
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Don’t be obtuse.
Wait, …
Be more obtuse!
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Weather Channel (showing church street mall Burlington Vermont during yesterday’s flooding). -
“Normally there would be several people in the mall”.
The camera pans to show…several people.
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Is that innumeracy or unliteracy?
Shopping in a Vermont Costco the other day and an older white guy said to me “it looks like half of India is here today”.
That isn’t innumeracy, that is just racism. Do we have a thread for that yet?
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Observing and counting to 500 million is now racist???
At first I thought it might be racist but then he wasn’t making a value judgement (well, at least not qualitatively).
How different is it from someone going to Whistler during ski season and saying “it looks like half of Australia is here today” (apart from not being quite so innumerate)?