Yes, and I've encountered people who didn't know a quart is 25% of a gallon. As well as people who knew that a quarter is 1/4 of a dollar, but had never noticed the similarity between the words quart and quarter.
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You can prove ANYTHING with statistics!
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Or, as we called them when my wife was taking them a few years ago for her Master's degree, "sadistics". :)
Remember the next time you are stuck in traffic: Half the drivers around you are below average, *and* have an IQ less than 100...
Yeah. math is all hard like. Idiots, we are surrounded by them.
Been watching the geniuses on the national news again?
Yes, and I've encountered people who didn't know a quart is 25% of a gallon. As well as people who knew that a quarter is 1/4 of a dollar, but had never noticed the similarity between the words quart and quarter.
"Remember the next time you are stuck in traffic: Half the drivers around you are below average, *and* have an IQ less than 100..."
And their vote counts just as much as yours. They can buy power tools with no questions asked.
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