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Mad genius, comedian, actor, and freelance voiceover artist broadcasting from the distant shores of Lake Erie (he/him)

Broadview Heights, Ohio
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    1. Rational Academic. What’s Left of the Sound Left?!‏ @Aya62335284 1 Aug 2020
      Replying to @arthur_affect @perdricof

      The issue is common understanding for meaningful communication among a general public. On your example, how is that hypothetical scale better than the sort you encounter in real life? Seems definitively less precise, no?

      2 replies 0 retweets 5 likes
    2. Arthur Chu‏Verified account @arthur_affect 1 Aug 2020
      Replying to @Aya62335284 @perdricof

      All scales that exist in the real world are this scale, it just depends on the scale (so to speak)

      3 replies 1 retweet 67 likes
    3. Rational Academic. What’s Left of the Sound Left?!‏ @Aya62335284 1 Aug 2020
      Replying to @arthur_affect @perdricof

      Does some degree of rounding? Sure. The degree you present? I don’t want to pay for (ca) 5 pounds of meat with (ca) 4.6 pounds. And again, this is a deflection of the point of general communication/ common understanding.

      3 replies 0 retweets 4 likes
    4. Arthur Chu‏Verified account @arthur_affect 1 Aug 2020
      Replying to @Aya62335284 @perdricof

      Yes, I understand that you think mathematical education is just a matter of telling kids how to punch numbers into the calculator on their iPhones and that any further thought about the relationship between those abstract functions and the real world is a woke waste of time

      3 replies 4 retweets 90 likes
    5. Rational Academic. What’s Left of the Sound Left?!‏ @Aya62335284 1 Aug 2020
      Replying to @arthur_affect @perdricof

      Sounds like a fun argument to have with a street vendor when purchasing food upon encountering less than careful rounding.

      2 replies 0 retweets 2 likes
    6. Arthur Chu‏Verified account @arthur_affect 1 Aug 2020
      Replying to @Aya62335284 @perdricof

      It is only by having some understanding of this concept that you would have any basis for having the argument!

      1 reply 2 retweets 62 likes
    7. Arthur Chu‏Verified account @arthur_affect 1 Aug 2020
      Replying to @arthur_affect @Aya62335284 @perdricof

      My God I'm so fucking sick of conservatives ranting about "New Math" or "Common Core Math" as though the "good ol' fashioned cipherin'" they think is so important to teach kids isn't the *least relevant part of mathematical education by far*

      6 replies 15 retweets 118 likes
    8. Arthur Chu‏Verified account @arthur_affect 1 Aug 2020
      Replying to @arthur_affect @Aya62335284 @perdricof

      It has never, in history, been less important to be able to recite your times tables It has never, in history, been less important to be able to take out a piece of paper and perform long division by hand

      6 replies 11 retweets 104 likes
    9. Arthur Chu‏Verified account @arthur_affect 1 Aug 2020
      Replying to @arthur_affect @Aya62335284 @perdricof

      Even in the olden days before everyone was carrying a powerful computer with them in their pocket everywhere they went "Math errors" as the result of *conceptual* errors were far more common and damaging than actual arithmetic flubs

      1 reply 8 retweets 107 likes
    10. Arthur Chu‏Verified account @arthur_affect 1 Aug 2020
      Replying to @arthur_affect @Aya62335284 @perdricof

      Forgetting to carry the 1 while multiplying two numbers gets you a wrong answer within the same order of magnitude as the right answer Multiplying the *wrong two numbers* is a far more consequential mistake

      1 reply 4 retweets 86 likes
      Arthur Chu‏Verified account @arthur_affect 1 Aug 2020
      Replying to @arthur_affect @Aya62335284 @perdricof

      And the best way to build a foundation to avoid such errors is to start off teaching children to THINK To understand that mathematics, including even simple arithmetic, is a CONSTRUCTED TOOL Which is what all that newfangled nonsense about set theory and whatnot is about

      3:45 AM - 1 Aug 2020
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        2. Rational Academic. What’s Left of the Sound Left?!‏ @Aya62335284 1 Aug 2020
          Replying to @arthur_affect @perdricof

          That CONSTRUCTED TOOL creates a meaningful SHARED UNDERSTANDING

          4 replies 0 retweets 7 likes
        3. Arthur Chu‏Verified account @arthur_affect 1 Aug 2020
          Replying to @Aya62335284 @perdricof

          Yes And it is VERY IMPORTANT that our society have a SHARED UNDERSTANDING that of the LIMITS OF THE TOOL

          1 reply 4 retweets 74 likes
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        2. Amelia Bloody Rose‏ @AmeliaRoseWrite 1 Aug 2020
          Replying to @arthur_affect @Aya62335284 @perdricof

          Amelia Bloody Rose Retweeted Amelia Bloody Rose

          Oh, good grief, weren't we having the EXACT SAME problem with these narrow-minded yahoos a few days ago but about words?https://twitter.com/AmeliaRoseWrite/status/1288044348550967296?s=20 …

          Amelia Bloody Rose added,

          Amelia Bloody Rose @AmeliaRoseWrite
          Replying to @AmeliaRoseWrite @arthur_affect and 2 others
          Basically, if they're citing the freaking DICTIONARY as the arbiter of reality, well, congratulations, they've discovered semantics! Dictionaries describe the way we use words, and words are a way we imperfectly and generally describe reality
          1 reply 0 retweets 5 likes
        3. Amelia Bloody Rose‏ @AmeliaRoseWrite 1 Aug 2020
          Replying to @AmeliaRoseWrite @arthur_affect and

          I've run into this as a science communicator, as well, when people ask about "breaking the laws of physics." We have to explain that it's not like traffic laws; these laws are attempts to DESCRIBE physics. If something seems to "break" the laws it means WE have gotten them wrong

          0 replies 0 retweets 5 likes
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        2. Richard H. Ebright‏ @R_H_Ebright 1 Aug 2020
          Replying to @arthur_affect @Aya62335284 @perdricof

          Arrant nonsense.

          1 reply 0 retweets 1 like
        3. Beta‏ @BetaDecayPlus 1 Aug 2020
          Replying to @R_H_Ebright @arthur_affect and

          What is?

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        2. Chris‏ @CeJayGe 1 Aug 2020
          Replying to @arthur_affect @Aya62335284 @perdricof

          It’s not constructed by us, it’s discovered.

          5 replies 0 retweets 1 like
        3. Arthur Chu‏Verified account @arthur_affect 1 Aug 2020
          Replying to @CeJayGe @Aya62335284 @perdricof

          It really isn't, or if you want to argue that the Platonic world of forms exists and a brain perceives it the way eyes perceive light you're getting really far into the philosophical weeds and taking that position isn't as easy as you seem to think

          2 replies 1 retweet 9 likes
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