(That particular example, even though you'd think it's a fucking obvious one, is one that's been used to fuck over uneducated people in the wild before Hence you always count the number of weeks in a year by dividing 365 / 7 = 52 plus a day, not by adding up the months)
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That's the whole thing that Kareem Carr - who has more formal expertise in the academic discipline of mathematics than you or I - was talking about The more of a sophisticated understanding you have of math the less need you have to sneer at or "correct" laypeople
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Because you see that all of math is just a tool we make up in order to accomplish some goal, and in that basic principle the fisherman in their boat is no different from the academic in their ivory tower
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I cannot tell you how much I love this response.
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