A lot of people are not good at math. This is a country wide problem, even President Obama said it. However, there are some people that just stink horribly at it and should never be near any kind of mathematical principle or function whatsoever.
Let me give you an example. Some people conflate numbers when there isn’t much to conflate. Walking 5 blocks in Manhattan, or even taking a train 5 blocks, should really only take 5 minutes. But some people think it takes 30 minutes. If these people think it takes so long, I wonder how fast they are walking. Even if a human is crawling, they will still move faster than a snail, right?
Working in the business world make you think that a person should be good at numbers but that’s just not true. I can’t tell you how many times me and my friends that work in business can not divide a check! Also, you’d think that a person who works in this domain would know how to read a report. But that’s just not true, again. Sorry to disappoint.
Reconciling data is totally logical. But if you are looking at the wrong data, then what is the point of trying to reconcile? It’s trying to match bananas to pears, no? I think it could help the country as a whole if some people just stop thinking they are good at math. It would make everyone’s life a lot easier. Especially since these people think they are right about everything and you can see from my examples alone that they are not.
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