Someone forward this to Shaq, he’ll set her straight!
This was painful to watch, I would have stopped and asked her to continue on foot.
He didn’t marry her for her brains apparently. But why is no one pissed he is filming this while driving? He is just a big dumb ass.
Maybe there’s a reason why the comments are off on that vid :D
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You’re right that recording while driving isn’t great, but at least he stopped when she asked him to.
This video is also 12 years old
Then we should be so harsh, there’s been a lot of inflation since then. I don’t even know what 80 mph 12 years ago is today.
58 minutes?
They’re stealing our time!
Heh heh. Because of her weird feet.
And yet it didn’t keep him from marrying her. True love
I’m sure she’s a nice girl, but I don’t think I could bear such a large intellectual gap for too long. Stuff like this becomes frustrating quite quickly. But then again, in their case it might not be too big of a gap anyway. Understanding the basic principles behind measuring units does not make him Einstein.
Or he had the same reaction as her. Had it explained to him and is now passing on the fun.
But she will better college than any college in india
This one question breaks American brains.
2 cars approach each other, with 20 km between them. The speed of each car is 10 kmph. At 20 km apart from each, a fly starts traveling from one car towards another at 15 kmph. Once it reaches the other car, it turns back and starts towards the first car. It continues to do this until the cars meet/collide. How much distance does the fly cover in total?/s
is it just 15km? The cars meet after an hour and the fly is going 15kmph for 1h, so all the bouncing back and forth is irrelevant. Feels like a trick question and I’m missing something though
Totally. There’s a funny story about this question going around the Princeton Advanced Studies center. Some would see the trick, but many would get stuck on trying to add up each portion of the journey.
And then they took the question to von Neumann. It begins to consider it and our come 15 km. They’re elated and say, you must have gotten the trick. “What trick? All I did was add up the geometric sum.” And a couple of insanely smart people left dumbfounded at how smart von Neumann was.
Of course, he could have been pulling their leg.
If you go 80 mph on the way there, and immediately turn around and go 60 mph on the way back, what is your average speed for the 160 mile trip?
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68.6 mph
Instructions unclear. Tried to do a 180 degree turn at 80 mph. Trip was much shorter than expected.
Damn. Did you survive?
Nah that’s their ghost commenting.
That’s called “being caught off guard”.
Or maybe she was just messing with him, who knows.
It is quite devastating when you see people lacking even the most basic or common of knowledge. No wonder the world is in a state that it is in. You can’t expect people to make changes when they barely even know how the world works.
I mean some people just freeze up around numbers. That’s not the end of the world as long as they know that they suck at that.
Like I’m a programmer and I’m like comically bad at math. Like 3 Stooges bad. If I’m forced to do math on the spot I will expand a lot of energy figuring out exactly the wrong thing.
Same! Senior dev here with both dyscalculia and dysgraphia. Numbers literally transpose for me, for example when I’m filling out a restaurant receipt and calculating tip+total. It’s wild.
Oh, lightbulb. I’m wildly bad at numbers even outside of math. Like I no longer trust myself to type even four digit ticket numbers by hand - copy paste only!
Maybe I’ve got a little bit of that
She’s a national treasure. I wonder how she’s doing these days lol
He’s not even phrasing it as a riddle. The answer is right there in the question. That poor woman.
Okay, but what if the car was also 80 miles long?
Well let’s see. If I’m 5’11" and I can run a mile in 8 minutes…
Ride that snake.
Instantaneously!
I couldn’t get past her starting the mental math. “If I run a mile in 8 mins…” This lady can vote, drive a car, and purchase a firearm. We’re so fucked.
Ahh, haven’t seen this in a long time.
Though you kinda have to give to her, that her initial guesstimate was 58 minutes. That’s just 3.3% error, not bad considering the ridiculous way she arrived at that number. Maybe she’s really good at estimates but can’t do any precise math. She might even be an engineer.
Based on the title, it seeks like the question was 80 mph. Not 60
Think about this really hard again.
Getting to recreate the video in the comments really is special.
You’re right, it would take an hour to go 60 miles at 60mph. Try the math again with 80 miles at 80mph.
I did. 58/80 != ~3.3%
Can someone please tell me what I’m misunderstanding?
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If you’re traveling 80 miles PER HOUR, you will travel 80 miles in an hour, or 60 minutes. She guessed 58 minutes.
I see! I misread their comment! I thought it was 80mph for 60 minutes
Oh lord
I shamefully accept my downvotes
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And people wonder why America is the way it is. A grown ass adult married woman can’t even grasp the concept of mph. The school system has majorly failed this woman. It’s like even the concept of critical thinking has been eradicated.
I’ve seen this same video with two UK girls doing this
Well yah but that makes sense who outside of America knows what a mile is.
If you told me that the miles Americans use for distance and the miles in mph are two different distances I wouldn’t straight up believe you, but still double check later
You’ll never guess what system we use for distance in the UK!
The UK also uses miles, unfortunately. We started the process of adopting the metric system and then apparently decided it was simply too French to stomach
I’m in Canada, but what does it matter if it’s mph or kph? The concept is the same.
It’s a joke.
I hope so, or we’ve got the woman from the video commenting here.
I would have said they cancel out anyway
“Think about how dumb the average American is. Then think that half of em are dumber than that!”
- George Carlin
She was thinking critically.
