Comment on Don't fix the problem just change the parameters

RejZoR@lemmy.ml ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

• BetaDoggo_@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  No, it’s a meme made for older generations to feel superior to the younger generations. I’ve never met anyone who couldn’t read analog (who wasn’t very early primary school age).

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• over_clox@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  How hard can it actually even be? Nobody taught me how to read an analog clock, I just figured it out myself by staring at my parents’ analog clock for exactly 5 minutes, while carefully watching the hands move and counting.

  When I realized that the second hand ticked 60 times per revolution, and after it had went around 5 times, and the longer of the two slow hands had advanced from the 12 to the 1, then I simply thought to myself “Well I get it now, that’s not so difficult!”

  And yes I correctly extrapolated the correlation between the minute hand and the hour hand too.

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  • bleistift2@sopuli.xyz ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    Figuring things out yourself is always hit or miss. Either the specific neurons required for you to understand something fire or they don’t.

    Relying children to figure something out for themselves is doubly stupid. Because for that to work, the child must want to learn the thing and then be able to understand it. If reading an analog clock isn’t something you need (and maybe you’re not even around analog clocks), then you won’t learn.

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    • over_clox@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      Very true yes, but even considering kids that aren’t as inclined to learn on their own, it can’t be too difficult for an adult or even older sibling to sit down for 5 minutes or so and explain it while watching the clock with them. It could be made even easier if you put it side by side with a synchronized digital clock/watch.

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      • MeThisGuy@feddit.nl ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

        yeh but that’s a very slippery slope…

        before long (no clue how long) you’ll have to teach them about 24 hrs in a day, 7 days in a week, 4 weeks in a month, 12 months a year. 365.
        and why we have a Gregorian calendar why it wasn’t always that way.
        oh yeah, and leap years.

        ain’t nobody got time for that

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• FelixCress@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  Just read comments of some users in this very thread. “Idiocracy” was a documentary after all.

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• Mickey7@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  Yeah they are. Try asking a simple question about geography. OR Remember in the movie Animal House how the Belushi character said that the Germans bombed Pearl Harbor. Say that today and most people still in school will readily nod in agreement

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• technocrit@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  Just the people who believe this nonsense.

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