Comments on: Peoples’ Math Skills So Poor They Can’t Tell if They Won the Lottery

By: Coin by Coin . com » Book Review: The Automatic Millionaire

Coin by Coin . com » Book Review: The Automatic Millionaire — Thu, 01 May 2008 09:44:11 +0000

[…] Perhaps this is the teacher side of me flaring with anger, but the author repulsed me when he claimed not to be a ‘math whiz’. Sure, not everyone is Ramanujan but if you’re writing about finances, I expect better of you than to dismiss math skills with the rest of the hoi polloi […]

By: darren

darren — Tue, 04 Dec 2007 00:26:11 +0000

You cannot judge an entire country of some dumb ass people there is no country better than another they all have there problems, so stop with the our country is better than your country is really childish. Did not think there were people genuinely that stooped.

By: cogita

cogita — Mon, 03 Dec 2007 17:27:34 +0000

Hardly a good argument for Fahrenheit. But its a great one for Kelvin.

By: James

James — Mon, 03 Dec 2007 01:37:20 +0000

Sounds like a good argument for degrees Fahrenheit…

By: NewLifeFromHeaven

NewLifeFromHeaven — Fri, 23 Nov 2007 19:47:29 +0000

Mark, that last comment is pretty harsh. No one is beyond redemption…

By: Mark

Mark — Thu, 22 Nov 2007 04:39:23 +0000

You folks obviously haven’t heard about the 5% rule! 5% of any population is a waste of space and oxygen. Whether you divide up the population by race, religion, country, occupation, sex, sexual preference, hair color, eye color, or education level achieved the result is the same. About 5% are useless, worthless, and in most cases beyond redemption. I know it sounds mean, but a cold, hard look at reality with bear this out. So this doesn’t surprise me at all! Reminds me of one of my favorite funnies…78.3% of all statistics are inaccurate, the other 22.7% only slightly inaccurate!

By: Maka

Maka — Thu, 22 Nov 2007 03:19:50 +0000

Which is larger -8 or 5?
Ahh shit.

By: Lenen

Lenen — Wed, 21 Nov 2007 10:23:46 +0000

The person that had the 1.000.000 USD ticket, threw it in the garbage because he thought he didn’t win

By: What is Love?

What is Love? — Tue, 20 Nov 2007 20:05:24 +0000

Why is this surprising? How much has the education budget been shrunk?

By: aaron

aaron — Fri, 16 Nov 2007 16:14:42 +0000

wow