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Suppose, a litre of cola costs US$3.15. If you buy one third of a litre of cola, how much would you pay?
The above may seem like a rather basic question. Something that you would perhaps expect the vast majority of adults to be able to answer? Particularly if they are allowed to use a calculator.
Unfortunately, the reality is that a large number of adults across the world struggle with even such basic financial tasks (the correct answer is US$1.05, by the way).
[...] In many other countries, the situation is even worse. Four in every ten adults in places like England, Canada, Spain and the US can't make this straightforward calculation – even when they had a calculator to hand. Similarly, less than half of adults in places like Chile, Turkey and South Korea can get the right answer.
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High number of adults unable to do basic mathematical tasks
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Friday March 16 2018, @09:46AM
It's not that democracy is a bad idea, the really bad idea is to allow the state to control the education system.
The point of education as far as the state is concerned is to produce workers with just enough education to perform whatever tasks the state requires of them without having the ability to question said tasks. I'm not limiting this to what you'd call 'blue collar' workers, it's across the board, I've had the misfortune to work in a place with a disproportionately large number of people with university degrees issued in the past two decades who've displayed what I regard as shocking degrees of ignorance of the subjects they've paper qualifications for.
As if it matters, the elite have absolutely no interest in having true democracy, like every other political system it's a useful fiction for them to hide their machinations behind...pay no attention to that man behind the curtain, the man who would be more than happy to see that you've fallen for one of their traps by thinking 'Hurr durr, me more educated than Ugg, me's voice count more..' when in reality, despite your education, your voice is just as worthless in their eyes.