Don't fix the problem just change the parameters
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I am in the transition age range of people who have trouble reading analog clocks and I must admit I had trouble with it until I started wearing a watch as an accessory as a teenager. The issue isn't that it's hard, it's just something that you need practice at to do quickly and a lot of young people just don't look at analog clocks to tell time very often. It's not a matter of being stupid or not being taught how to do it, it's like mental "muscle memory" that just isn't built up in a world where digital clocks are everywhere, including in your pocket 24/7
Watches were pretty ubiquitous before the smart phone was popularized. Though, digital watches were common since the '80s, so I'm not sure how much that really figures in. There is some truth, though, in needing to regularly do it to keep the skill.
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I loved when a class would get quiet enough to hear the seconds hand click on the mechanical motor. I lived to see how close it was to the end of minute. One time in class I counted how black dots were on the ceiling. Wow I was bored
I counted the dots along the x axis, multiplied by the y axis count and took that as an estimate for the tile. Then did the same with the number of tiles across the ceiling. Then multiplied that by the number of classrooms... Same with the floor tiles. There was no end to it.
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Clock reading was covered in kindergarten and cursive writing taught in 1st grade. These were some of the first wrinkles pushed into our little growing brains in the early 80s by school. That these things are no longer being taught so early explains why so many people are willing to immediately accept the Google AI overview as gospel and are wearing Crocs everywhere they go.
and are wearing Crocs everywhere they go.
Oooh, that's harsh.
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Just give it up you're not winning this argument
Anyone sane would have realised this is a useless thing to fight over
Either that or you're a troll
wrote last edited by [email protected]Just give it up you're not winning this argument
There is no "argument to win" since my interlocutor is a person unable even to learn the clock.
Are you a another USian per any chance?
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Lol no one wants that orange clown. How tf did this get political even LMFAOAOAOAO. You're so run out of arguments, you had to bring in a politician into an argument about analog and digital clocks. You're the most unintentionally ridiculous guy I've bumped into on this platform
That doesn’t surprise me at all since you are still unable to learn such a simple thing after all these years, sweetie
Not me taking pride in a trivial thing I learnt. Just shows how hard it was for you. I learnt it and didn't make a big deal out of it, cuz Ik anyone could learn it if they wanted to.
you had to bring in a politician into an argument about analog and digital clocks.
No. I am bringing an example of stupity in the thread about stupidity.
Go figure, sweetie.
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You don't see how people too lazy to understand the clock are too lazy?
I do not. I don’t conceive of looking at something as having anything to do with the concept of laziness. I feel like I’m missing something huge.
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you had to bring in a politician into an argument about analog and digital clocks.
No. I am bringing an example of stupity in the thread about stupidity.
Go figure, sweetie.
It's a thread about Analog and digital clocks. Trump had no significance in it. You're something else man
And to top it off, No one gives a shit about trump in my country 
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I do not. I don’t conceive of looking at something as having anything to do with the concept of laziness. I feel like I’m missing something huge.
I do not
In this case I am afraid I doubt in my ability to explain anything to someone of your ability.
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I do not
In this case I am afraid I doubt in my ability to explain anything to someone of your ability.
That doesn’t bode well for you, then, given that I am several orders of magnitude morally and intellectually superior to you.
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It's a thread about Analog and digital clocks. Trump had no significance in it. You're something else man
And to top it off, No one gives a shit about trump in my country you're hilariousRead again. Slowly.
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That doesn’t bode well for you, then, given that I am several orders of magnitude morally and intellectually superior to you.
Of course you are.
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Read again. Slowly.
Alr, you HAVE to be trolling. If not, how are u real dude?? you do realize you're embarrassing yourself right?
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Alr, you HAVE to be trolling. If not, how are u real dude?? you do realize you're embarrassing yourself right?
wrote last edited by [email protected]Try to read out loud too. I heard it helps barely literate people to understand the meaning of what they are trying to read.
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Try to read out loud too. I heard it helps barely literate people to understand the meaning of what they are trying to read.
Like you can speak about literacy, you get offended by letters my dude
USo you're not even a troll? Just stupid?
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Just give it up you're not winning this argument
There is no "argument to win" since my interlocutor is a person unable even to learn the clock.
Are you a another USian per any chance?
Yet you're horribly losing the apparently non existent argument.
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Yet you're horribly losing the apparently non existent argument.
Have you learned the clock yet? I suggest learning how to read with understanding now.
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Have you learned the clock yet? I suggest learning how to read with understanding now.
You need that buddy, letters scare u not me. No wonder since text to speech is bad with abbreviations
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You need that buddy, letters scare u not me. No wonder since text to speech is bad with abbreviations
wrote last edited by [email protected]So, still nothing? Don't worry, baby steps. At some point you will learn these skills of an average 7 years old.
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Are you sure, sweetie.
More sure than your parents when you were born sweetie.
Around 10 minutes.
Highly doubt it. A lot of people know how to read analog clocks but not many defend it like their life depends on it. It must've taken you majority of your childhood to learn it, if you're so proud of that trivial skill.
Buuutt, since u don't even know how to read, that's not really a surprise.Not that you can read all this without text-to-speech xD
Not that you can read all this without text-to-speech xD
Where is this ablism coming from?
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What kind of boomer would believe this nonsense?
https://www.snopes.com/fact-check/schools-removing-analog-clocks/
I don't really get it. Snopes says "mostly false", but then confirms that the UK made a recommendation to replace analog clock for digital ones because "some students had trouble estimating the remaining time".
While OOP is a shortcut/overgeneralization, it doesn't sound "mostly false" to me.
