Taibbi writes: "It's hard not to notice a new trend in the Republican race this year, which is that candidates are increasingly unconcerned about being factually wrong on live television."
The candidates at the GOP Presidential Debate in Orlando, Florida, 09/22/11. (photo: Getty Images)
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VOTE STRAIGHT DEMOCRATIC, the alternative is just too devastating for us and OUR country.
This is not a campaign. This is an 18 month pregnancy to birth an ugly critter.
Here's a question: How many negatives make a positive?
The problem with most consservaatives is they speak before they think, and they rarely think period. They believe whatever they're told by their pundits like the Bill-O and Rush instead of actually spending time investigating the issues, then attack anyone who opposes their points of view even if that someone has actually done the investigating necessary to 'KNOW' the facts. You only need to watch ten minutes of these so-called debates before you start wondering if you're watching reruns of the Three Stooges!
The TRUTH is you WATCHED the debate; the rest of us WATCHED AND LISTENED, CLOSELY!
The SCARIEST THING about this, Ken, is that he is JUST ONE of TENS OF MILLIONS who possess that programming (more than 50 million).
These researchers need to send their work out for peer review. It seems to me they started out with a conclusion and designed their research to prove that. Not good.
What is infuriating about the right saying whatever they want and getting away with it is just let someone from the left make a mistake and "they" are all over it.
x - y = 1.00
______________
2x = 2.10
x = 1.05; y = 0.05
The bat cost $1.05, the ball cost $.05
If the problem didn't specify sales tax, don't gum up the algebra with it. In the "intuitive" wrong answer, $1 and $.10, the bat cost only 90 cents more than the ball. The political problem is the Republican campaign to drill reason out of people's minds. They do attack people who can reason and see through their shenanigans. And vote against them.
X + $1.00 = $1.10; so...X = a damn dime. You only have 2 items; if one costs a dollar & the other a nickel...that only makes $1.05...where'd the other nickel go?
bat costs $1 more than ball
bat + ball = $1.10
If ball is .10 then bat is 1.10 ($1 more) and bat + ball is $1.20.
If ball is .05 then bat is 1.05 and bat + ball is 1.10
x + y =$1.10
The question was if the bat is $1.00 more than the ball how much does the ball cost. Nuff said.
The difference between $1.01 and $.09 is $.92. The only way you can get the difference to be $1.00 is with the answer given above.
College professors are more easily led by a magician's misdirection than is a child, since they are trained to follow suggestion, whereas a child's attentions freely wanders about. The little math test is FULL of suggestion: the suggested value of a baseball (plastic wiffle ball?) for 5 cents? The PRESENTATION is in itself a misdirection (math=reason?)
Under the torture of the spotlight onstage, when they run out of tricks, they start reaching for straws ~ Pick a straw, any straw... The wanna-be illusionist proves to be a delusionist, some of whom begin to believe their own patter as they set themselves adrift on a sea of imaginary life rafts ~ promising their unfortunate followers that this Golden Calf can really swim and will carry them to that far-off shore.
In a State that has a 5cent sales tax you might come up with 5 cents for the ball but with a state with a 12 cent or 6 cent, you would be better off at the ten cents for the ball and leave it at that Harvard or MIT Prof wants to play a game than give the facts. A child going to a store for a bat and a ball is told the total is $1.10 would have the exact change or parent with. Perhaps now a days a credit card. I am surprised there are still math tests, since most high school and college grads I meet cannot do math without a computer or calculator.
Electric went off Cashiers couldnot figure out 6 cent on a dollar, all HS or College
GOP/TP may have gone to College, says nothing of their morals or brains.
It is how you are brought up, how you are taught, type of Ministry in your Church.
Rich folk,took care of kids, they were too busy with Social life. Poor folk/middle class must work long hours.
Both parents.
Yuppie kids today only worry about stuff. Insensitive, uncaring, not very educated for all the taxes we pay. Watch Jeopardy most do not know Math, History or Geography....they get jobs?
I Believe in God, I do not get things wrong. Ones who do not Believe or Lie about their Faith Do.
ball+bat = 110
x+(x+100)= 110
2x+100 = 110
2x=110-100
2x=10
x=5 QED
I don't think the real issue here is whether or not some of us are good at math, or any other subject, for that matter. It's a question of whether or not we care about the truth.
I'm not a scientist, so I defer to those who are. repugs aren't scientists, so they try to discredit those who are, because science has a few facts that are running contrary to corporate profits right at the moment.
Also, the inability to admit an error is symptomatic of the kind of arrogance that makes these people dangerous when put in a position of importance, where facts matter and so does taking personal responsibility for actions.
They live in a special world filled with two sets of rules: one for them and one for the rest of us. They don't see any problem with that, because afterall, they're better than us, aren't they? They sure seem to think that. Nothing is more dangerous than a person in a position of power, who gets off on it and feels a sense of personal entitlement coupled with an inability to accept responsibility for their actions.
Arrogance is the most dangerous thing in the world, and the repugnant party is arrogantly proud of its arrogantly pride. The ignorance is willful.
"One" of them is not a half-dollar. You didn't say "neither" of them was. So, one of them is not a half-dollar, but is a nickel. Of course, the other one IS a half-dollar. That's the only answer I could think of.
In the second question, they're now making 1% less than they started with.
You are right. There are too many distractions. Time to settle in for research and at least wait until NEXT year to make decisions based on facts. A lot can happen in a year.
While the correct answer to the story problem... has been given and demonstrated mathematically a couple of times above, the issue of why so many people got it wrong is semiotically more interesting than a difference between "intuitive" and "reflective" approaches to thinking.
The story problem has a strong "frame" which is shopping, and when we shop, we are very rarely called upon to the sort of operation called for mathematically here. Many people tend not to frame it as an "algebra problem"; but instead as a "shopping problem".
In framing it as shopping, they think they are trying to find out a simple sum, because the operative question is not abstract, it is concrete: can I afford this + that? In shopping, you most typically (be default) already know what each item costs, and the difference in cost between dissimilar items is of little interest. The frame is thus highly misleading outside algebra class.
I added up the IQs of all the Creepublicon candidates and they totaled 110.
You're a Republican, aren't you. I'm sorry, I didn't mean to insult you. Yes, I did.
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