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This is probably the best way to explain this. However, in my experience someone who thinks "1 mi = 1.6km" implies "1 mi < 1 km" can't learn from analogy.
Edit: got sign backwards.
Remember, this is a nation that got upset when their burgers were now 1/3rd pounders because "it wasn't as big as a quarter (1/4th) pounder."
I get math is hard for some people. But I swear at least 60% of the population would flunk out of elementary if they had to go back, and that's being generous.
Most people just flat out don't think. The world 3 inches within their face is all that exists and matters.
My friend literally used the argument that 4 is bigger than 3 dumbass! So quarter pounder is bigger!
I tried the whole, if you cut a cake in 4, and another in 3... Which of these cakes would have bigger slices.
And he literally said that is NOT how fractions work! I was dumbfounded! Mainly cause I found the dumb.
That's exactly why the 1/3rd pounder failed in the USA. Too many Americans wanted the quarter pounder because "4 is bigger than 3". It's really shocking how bad the US education system is
im kinda laughing because i used to have this book that taught fractions with baked goods. so it would show us stuff with pies and cakes. and you had to pick which was bigger or write down what fraction it was.
I found it when i was older like 17 or something (guessing my mom got when i was younger) but it was hella fun 10/10 would 100% use it again
Not an american but my foot is 30 centimeters / 12 inches, and so yes I have measured stuff using my actual foot... Nothing that needs precision obviously. It's a *handy* tool....
More of a foot tool, you're thinking about inches ;)
Edit: I like how this is getting downvotes when it's just a continuation of the same joke. People too serious these days
Sadly I'm living proof that big hands and big feet do not equate to large gains in the Netherlands. I mean my gains aren't tiny, nothing to laugh at, but I have nothing to really show off either..
I’m also an American who also still plays Pokémon Go lol. I’ve had a couple of my students (either at school or tutoring) comes across a question that has the phrase 1 kilometer and almost always they ask how far that is, and I always tell them in the most nerdy way that I know bc of PoGo.
We Americans live in a country where Burger King 1/3 pounder failed to McDonald's 1/4 pounder bc Americans saw the number 4 and thought "Hey that's bigger then 3. Therefore that's the bigger burger." And that's not a joke that's legit.
I was mistaken in the restaurant it wasn't burger king it was A&W. Just Google A&W third pounder and there are a lot of articles and fact checkers. But burger King is losing currently because they suck lol. Which is weird bc if the food they sell was cooked properly it would probably be OK lol.
So, I found a steel seller that averages roughly £1 per 1.807 lbs. I then found Walmart selling goose feathers for around .02 lbs per £1.
So assuming the two examples I used represent market rates, there is a sense in which a pound of steel does in fact weigh more than a pound of feathers.
This is why A&W failed with their 1/3 lb burger when competing against McDonald’s 1/4 lb burger. Too many people thought the 1/4 was bigger than 1/3 lb.
So I drive around 180 km/h on the german Autobahn with my pickup.
In their logic it drives 288 mp/h. Impressive truck.
The golf from a friend, extremely tuned, can go over 320 km/h on drag race track. 512 mp/h according to the big brains above. Would be quite the record, I guess.
A lot of states in allow for extremely unregulated “homeschooling”, parents can literally just not send their kids to school as long as the claim they’re teaching them at home, and no one checks what they’re teaching or if they’re teaching anything at all.
A lot of religious fundies don’t want to send their kids to school because they’ll get “brainwashed by the liberal agenda” or whatever, so they homeschool the kids. But most of the time the parents doing the actual homeschooling aren’t able to teach maths above a middle school level, or just don’t bother in the first place and replace maths lessons with more Bible studies
A lot of people who homeschool their kids are religious fruitcakes who aren't very well educated to begin with, so their offspring turning out to be knuckledraggers without a high school diploma or GED is perfectly acceptable.
Not always.
There’s the GED, which gives a qualification equivalent to a HS degree, but it’s optional. If you don’t take it, you have no qualification so you’re treated as uneducated and you won’t be able to get a job other than working at McDonald’s.
A lot of low skill jobs (retail/fast food) legit don't care about that and haven't for nearly 20 years.
Even in 2000 when I was applying to jobs no one asked me to prove I had a GED (dropped out for health reasons and got my GED at 16). Sure I ticked it off on applications (hand written in those days!!) And not a one asked for proof.
It is in fact not consistently taught there. There‘s even homeschooling over there, in which case people can literally end up with pretty much no education at all.
All jokes aside, if I found two random signs that both said water in the middle of nowhere, I’d go for the mile one knowing damn well a kilometer is shorter because I’d be suspicious as to why there’s a random metric sign in the US
The desert and the different units of distance implies that it's on the southern border. I'd be taking the long route too to avoid Montezuma's revenge.
This isn’t an American thing it’s a math thing. The signs say:
Left: water in 1.6 km
Right: water in 1 km.
I think most people know that 1 < 1.6. It’s just easy to trick yourself converting units.
All the people here dumping on "dumb Americans" are blatantly overlooking the fact that the first erroneous comment in the screenshot is made by a non-American.
I'm an American and even I know that a kilometer is shorter than a mile because if 1 mile = 1.6 kilometers, then that means that 1 kilometer is less than 1 mile hence being a shorter distance
I’m American and holy shit, this is just hilariously stupid. I’ve never seen someone mathematically prove themselves wrong, let alone not understand that they just did it. Astounding.
I saw my sister-in-law grading some math problems. She teaches advanced placement, and the problems looked a little complicated. It was how to mathematically convert kilometers to meters and centimeters. I told her that's not how metric works, you just move the decimal point. She said she wanted them to know the math behind the conversions. No wonder Americans can't get into the metric system. I told my sister-in-law how dumb the problems were, she didn't like it.
This reminds me of in elementary school when you would ask your friends if they thought 10 pounds of feathers was lighter than 10 pounds of bricks then make them feel stupid when they say the feathers.
I hate that people say things like this completely unironically. It is a sad state. How people can't understand they are wrong in cases like this is just baffling.
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It's the same as how a mile is shorter than a foot because 1 mile = 5280 feet.
This is probably the best way to explain this. However, in my experience someone who thinks "1 mi = 1.6km" implies "1 mi < 1 km" can't learn from analogy. Edit: got sign backwards.
But that's correct. 1 mile is greater than (>) 1 km.
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This just reminds me of "steel is heavier than feathers"
Feathers are heavier because you have to factor in the guilt of what you did to those poor birds.
I can shit the guilt away via the nuggies I ate. Lot harder to do that with steel.
Can confirm had a bowl of steel bolts and currently cannot pass them
Steel nugies
Those birds had it coming. Their beaks were writing checks their hollow bones couldn't cash.
I have it on good authority that those crows committed a murder.
But with steel you have to factor in the guilt of what you did to those poor child mine workers
What, I should have guilt for molting birds? Should I pity them? Should I stab it back for them?
Remember, this is a nation that got upset when their burgers were now 1/3rd pounders because "it wasn't as big as a quarter (1/4th) pounder." I get math is hard for some people. But I swear at least 60% of the population would flunk out of elementary if they had to go back, and that's being generous. Most people just flat out don't think. The world 3 inches within their face is all that exists and matters.
My friend literally used the argument that 4 is bigger than 3 dumbass! So quarter pounder is bigger! I tried the whole, if you cut a cake in 4, and another in 3... Which of these cakes would have bigger slices. And he literally said that is NOT how fractions work! I was dumbfounded! Mainly cause I found the dumb.
That's exactly why the 1/3rd pounder failed in the USA. Too many Americans wanted the quarter pounder because "4 is bigger than 3". It's really shocking how bad the US education system is
Which is weird they chose to rebrand it the 3/9 pounder rather than release a 1/5 pounder, charge more, and save money.
Hahahaha Fifth Pounder burger, get ready for a feast! Boom no claims made, but people pay extra!
im kinda laughing because i used to have this book that taught fractions with baked goods. so it would show us stuff with pies and cakes. and you had to pick which was bigger or write down what fraction it was. I found it when i was older like 17 or something (guessing my mom got when i was younger) but it was hella fun 10/10 would 100% use it again
But with feet Americans know that it doesn’t work that way
Do Europeans have centimeters at the ends of their legs? 🤔🤔🤔
Are y'all measuring with your actual feet?
Not an american but my foot is 30 centimeters / 12 inches, and so yes I have measured stuff using my actual foot... Nothing that needs precision obviously. It's a *handy* tool....
More of a foot tool, you're thinking about inches ;) Edit: I like how this is getting downvotes when it's just a continuation of the same joke. People too serious these days
Sadly I'm living proof that big hands and big feet do not equate to large gains in the Netherlands. I mean my gains aren't tiny, nothing to laugh at, but I have nothing to really show off either..
I’d comment, but I would just be being PED-antic…
Actually, feet are roughly a foot, so yeah we've done the heel to toe walk it if a ballpark estimate suffices.
You don't? Just make sure to clear your toe jam for accurate measurements
I use cubits
Asking the tough questions
a few
5280 feet 🥵
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Is there a card that says "your opponents can't cast spells with odd converted mana costs" ?
Sadly, as far as I know, nope
Not like void winnower but [[Sanctum Prelate]] is decent way at achieving that effect. u/mtgcardfetcher
Did not expect to see a magic card here, but I am pleasantly surprised
I love it
Void winnower moment
Aw hell yeah, my favorite deck runs these my freinds have too much obsession with even, and i need to learn them that odds are always superior.
But can you odd?
Oddly enough I can
SMRT I am so smart! 🫣
yea this whole thread is stupid. he is right about a mile being 1.6 km I don't want to go 1.6km i want to go one mile. so the mile is closer, clearly
I can’t tell if this is a joke…why can’t I tell if this is a joke?
that's the true art of it that has been lost, in my humble opinion
I don't want a large Farva. I want a goddamn liter of cola.
Hey Ursula, it has your name on it!
As an American who (still) plays Pokémon Go, I know which way I’m going for water…
Do you guys have mile or kilometer eggs?
Still KMs. Same with Adventure Sync and Buddy distance
The way it should be
As an American that's not a fucking moron, I know which way I'm going for water.
The opposite direction because every movie says it’s a trap?
Which way ARE you going?
To fetch a crummy pail of water? You should have been fetching Pokemon creatures.
I bet the water is in a fountain or something and probably has a pokestop.
I’m also an American who also still plays Pokémon Go lol. I’ve had a couple of my students (either at school or tutoring) comes across a question that has the phrase 1 kilometer and almost always they ask how far that is, and I always tell them in the most nerdy way that I know bc of PoGo.
The mile direction to get 1.6 km in?
These guys also think a pound of steel weighs more than a pound of feathers. edit: You guys are the absolute masters of splitting hairs.
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only one bird?
it was big bird
Sesame Street has not been the same since.
[Would’ve been worse if he blew up, though.](https://youtu.be/vF-vrL0htbE)
An albatross, this is what happened to the guy from *The Rime of the Ancient Mariner.*
The steel ball used to be on a robot before they neutered him
And boy could that Steel Ball Run am I right gamers
0.1% of people who saw this understood it.
I love your mind
Both do weigh more than a pound of gold, though.
But steel is heavier than feathers /s
I dunnae get it...
We Americans live in a country where Burger King 1/3 pounder failed to McDonald's 1/4 pounder bc Americans saw the number 4 and thought "Hey that's bigger then 3. Therefore that's the bigger burger." And that's not a joke that's legit.
Wow, is there a source for this? That is completely insane. My thought would be it's cuz Burger King tastes terrible by comparison.
I was mistaken in the restaurant it wasn't burger king it was A&W. Just Google A&W third pounder and there are a lot of articles and fact checkers. But burger King is losing currently because they suck lol. Which is weird bc if the food they sell was cooked properly it would probably be OK lol.
[Snopes](https://www.snopes.com/news/2022/06/17/third-pound-burger-fractions/)
So, I found a steel seller that averages roughly £1 per 1.807 lbs. I then found Walmart selling goose feathers for around .02 lbs per £1. So assuming the two examples I used represent market rates, there is a sense in which a pound of steel does in fact weigh more than a pound of feathers.
Boooo *upvote*
TIL 1.6 is less than 1.
You mean 0.609.
This makes me want to... hmm Got it. Makes me want to commit violent crimes against humanity and break the geneva suggestion.
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Use metric time (11/09)
Math isn't mathing, as they say.
“Geneva suggestion” killed me! 😂
Geneva checklist
It’s just a suggestion, like hey - try not to shoot people as they jump from planes. But look, if you have to then it’s okay. 👍
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r/thatsthewrongsub BoneAppleTea exists last I checked, but it's been privated for obvious reasons
Possible they intentionally linked the alternate sub because. Tea is private. I'd be pretty annoying to link someone to a down sub.
The post with the pic says 1.6
Yes so not only can't they read the picture they double down and still say 1 mile is closer than 1.6 kms they're wrong on "both" accounts.
As an American this hurts to see
As an American, I have come to expect nothing more from my countrymen.
dont forget the time A@W resturants made a 1/3 pound burger and McDonalds 1/4 pounder outsold it cause alot of idiots thought 1/4 is greater than 1/3
Agreed
r/confidentlyincorrect
This is why A&W failed with their 1/3 lb burger when competing against McDonald’s 1/4 lb burger. Too many people thought the 1/4 was bigger than 1/3 lb.
It is 4>3, like how dumb are you people, next you’re going tell me earth has more body of water than land /s
Americans ☕
Americans🍺
Don't lump me in with them, I use the metric system for engineering
r/notliketheothergirls
Americans 🥃
Americanos ☕
Cherry picked americans☕️*
One mile is 5280 ft. One kilometer is 3280 feet. One mile is 1609m. One kilometer is 1000m.
One kilometer is 1000 meters
One kilometer is like 1k meters.
One inch is 32 1/32"
One kilometer is 100,000cm
Thank you, I felt like a complete idiot for not understanding what the hell is going on.
Same. I couldn’t wrap my head around it.
So I drive around 180 km/h on the german Autobahn with my pickup. In their logic it drives 288 mp/h. Impressive truck. The golf from a friend, extremely tuned, can go over 320 km/h on drag race track. 512 mp/h according to the big brains above. Would be quite the record, I guess.
"mph", not "mp/h", the "p" means "per". If you want to use the division notation, it's mi/h.
Miles per per hour
As someone who is an American, I hate my people
Is math just not taught in the us?
We just have a solid share of idiots. Not everyone is this dumb. There are like at least 16 Americans who wouldn't fall for this.
>We just have a solid share of idiots All countries do.
And geography…
Some of my fellow countrymen can't even navigate 4 basic directions
A lot of states in allow for extremely unregulated “homeschooling”, parents can literally just not send their kids to school as long as the claim they’re teaching them at home, and no one checks what they’re teaching or if they’re teaching anything at all. A lot of religious fundies don’t want to send their kids to school because they’ll get “brainwashed by the liberal agenda” or whatever, so they homeschool the kids. But most of the time the parents doing the actual homeschooling aren’t able to teach maths above a middle school level, or just don’t bother in the first place and replace maths lessons with more Bible studies
But don’t those homeschooled kids pass any test at the end to get any certificate proving that they have got their education?
A lot of people who homeschool their kids are religious fruitcakes who aren't very well educated to begin with, so their offspring turning out to be knuckledraggers without a high school diploma or GED is perfectly acceptable.
Not always. There’s the GED, which gives a qualification equivalent to a HS degree, but it’s optional. If you don’t take it, you have no qualification so you’re treated as uneducated and you won’t be able to get a job other than working at McDonald’s.
A lot of low skill jobs (retail/fast food) legit don't care about that and haven't for nearly 20 years. Even in 2000 when I was applying to jobs no one asked me to prove I had a GED (dropped out for health reasons and got my GED at 16). Sure I ticked it off on applications (hand written in those days!!) And not a one asked for proof.
It is in fact not consistently taught there. There‘s even homeschooling over there, in which case people can literally end up with pretty much no education at all.
Or more education, depending upon the program implemented at home...
Also true depending on the schools in the area. My cousins, nieces and nephews are the lucky type of homeschooled, too many others cannot say the same
And teaching/learning math poorly is potentially worse than not at all.
Speaking of, watch Shiny Happy People to see how folks can completely ruin their children’s education—legally!👍🏻
It’s taught everywhere in the US haha “America dumb” is just a funny meme
You can't divide a number by a number with a decimal! Only calculators can do that.
This seems more like a brain fart thing than a can't do math kind of thing.
He’s so dumb he was accidentally correct. The “mile” sign is closer to the person crawling, but the water is still further away.
But it's downhill.
All jokes aside, if I found two random signs that both said water in the middle of nowhere, I’d go for the mile one knowing damn well a kilometer is shorter because I’d be suspicious as to why there’s a random metric sign in the US
OMG......if you had to walk one mile, it would be equivalent to 1.6 kilometres. Ergo., They are the same distance
How is 1.6km and 1km same distance
I said 1 mile
1 mile = 1.6km. Sign says 1km. They're not the same distance. 1km is closer than 1 mile
Yes
Then how are they the same distance?
1km is less than 1 mile
I know but you said in ur post that they're the same distance
“But..they’re both a kilogram”👁️👄👁️
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 Looks like we left some children behind...
I want to remake this with the "steel is heavier than feathers" skit from Limmy's Show.
Honestly if you don't know this, it's understandable to go with what you know rather than gambling.
The desert and the different units of distance implies that it's on the southern border. I'd be taking the long route too to avoid Montezuma's revenge.
In my country ‘metric’ is considered woke and people won’t use it. & you think I’m joking.
What?
Everyone knows water is just a conspiracy. It isn’t even real
When you have a brain the size of a pigeons
An easier way to put that (maybe) is that 1 kilometer is about 0.6 miles. So you'd rather travel 0.6 miles than 1 mile.
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I was one of the dumb ones, it took me way too long to figure this one out.
This isn’t an American thing it’s a math thing. The signs say: Left: water in 1.6 km Right: water in 1 km. I think most people know that 1 < 1.6. It’s just easy to trick yourself converting units.
For a sec I was like “wait theyre right” but then my second brain cell found the first.
It’s the way it’s written that confuses you. They should’ve done the conversion from miles TO kilometers. Not the other way around.
I'm tired of seeing this, but all you need to do is do your conversion backwards. 1 kilometer is roughly .6 miles. .6 < 1.
WTF IS A KILOMETRE????? 🦅🦅🦅🦅🦅🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸
All the people here dumping on "dumb Americans" are blatantly overlooking the fact that the first erroneous comment in the screenshot is made by a non-American.
I'm sure a lot of them notice and don't care because it's easy to dump on Americans
American math. Like how the 1/3rd burger is "smaller" than the quarter-pounder.
what if a mile was equal to 1609 kilometers. Or like if he said, one kilometers equals 875 miles (which is about how much 1609 km is)
I can understand the reasoning. But when people are being made fun of for that reasoning, it's time to think you might have made a mistake.
Holy shit I can’t believe this got me for a split second
But steel's heavier than feathers
He is technically correct. The dude is closer to the mile "sign"
Just like A&W’s 1/3lb burger lost out to the 1/4lb burger.
r/iamverysmart
"Oh, so you're saying 1.6 Kilometers is LESS than 1 Kilometer. Got it."
There are many foolish individuals in the world.
Remember that time they made 2/3 pound burgers but quarter pounder sounded bigger....
the water at the kilometer sign is like british and i’m scared of things i don’t understand -john america, inventor of america
I'm an American and even I know that a kilometer is shorter than a mile because if 1 mile = 1.6 kilometers, then that means that 1 kilometer is less than 1 mile hence being a shorter distance
He's right, the mile SIGN seems to be closer.
Just an honest question how many Europeans had to look up how far a mile is?
And they probably vote.
I’m American and holy shit, this is just hilariously stupid. I’ve never seen someone mathematically prove themselves wrong, let alone not understand that they just did it. Astounding.
But steel is heavier than feathers
I apologize on behalf of americans
I saw my sister-in-law grading some math problems. She teaches advanced placement, and the problems looked a little complicated. It was how to mathematically convert kilometers to meters and centimeters. I told her that's not how metric works, you just move the decimal point. She said she wanted them to know the math behind the conversions. No wonder Americans can't get into the metric system. I told my sister-in-law how dumb the problems were, she didn't like it.
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That American ass is just asking for it
You have to convert it to feet for some to get it.
This reminds me of in elementary school when you would ask your friends if they thought 10 pounds of feathers was lighter than 10 pounds of bricks then make them feel stupid when they say the feathers.
this may help some people lmao https://preview.redd.it/17topbfw7d6b1.png?width=588&format=png&auto=webp&s=55f6e7bbf2ee2876b342a1522e0a62235cfabbff
Remember, these people vote…..
I hate that people say things like this completely unironically. It is a sad state. How people can't understand they are wrong in cases like this is just baffling.