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Some educators argue 2+2 can sometimes equal 5

5 points by Reedx 6y ago

allears 6y ago
As mentioned in the website header, this is specifically a right-wing website. The comments bear this out. It's basically manufactured outrage, finding some college prof with controversial views (there's no shortage of those) and building an anti-liberal argument out of it.
- rbecker 6y ago
  On the other hand, it is folly to ignore what professors are teaching, and what universities will tolerate or promote. Even if you dislike the messenger.
  - allears 6y ago
    It's very easy to cherry-pick one extreme statement and imply that all colleges and professors feel the same way. After all, those nasty elite liberal intellectuals are all on the Soros agenda!
    - rbecker 6y ago
      Very true. But the only alternative to single examples are statistical studies and surveys. And hardly any news source limits themselves to that. So if we're going to accuse them of cherry-picking, we shouldn't stop with just this one story or website.
  - PaulHoule 6y ago
    In the Old Testament there was a temple with a circular pit that was 10 cubits across and 30 cubits around. A sensible person would say the ancient Hebrews did not know as much about math as the ancient Greeks. If you think the bible is infallible then you have some contradictions to resolve, maybe you build a hexagonal pit at your temple or maybe the pit had 10^14 kg of neutronium in it, or legislate that pi=3.
- Someone 6y ago
  Surprisingly, one of those college profs is Timothy Gowers. He probably didn’t realize the audience he was in when he wrote “I can imagine a (slightly contrived) situation in which people might find it useful to say that 2+2=5”
PaulHoule 6y ago
Python thinks 0.1 + 0.2 = 0.30000000000000004 I think that is bad enough.
AnimalMuppet 6y ago
> The woke argue objectivity and any either/or binary about truth (answers are either true or false) are part of white supremacy. But see, critical theory also makes claims about truth that are quite binary. (Try telling them that objectivity and binary truth are not part of white supremacy, or any of a number of other things that contradict their doctrine.) But that means that, by the quoted statement, critical theory is also part of white supremacy. I love using recursion on claims like the quote...
sorokod 6y ago
Why go as far as functions, how about 0 and 1 . One is clearly the phallus to zeros's vagina. Can you not be more binary then that?

5 points by Reedx 6y ago

As mentioned in the website header, this is specifically a right-wing website. The comments bear this out. It's basically manufactured outrage, finding some college prof with controversial views (there's no shortage of those) and building an anti-liberal argument out of it.

rbecker 6y ago
On the other hand, it is folly to ignore what professors are teaching, and what universities will tolerate or promote. Even if you dislike the messenger.
- allears 6y ago
  It's very easy to cherry-pick one extreme statement and imply that all colleges and professors feel the same way. After all, those nasty elite liberal intellectuals are all on the Soros agenda!
  - rbecker 6y ago
    Very true. But the only alternative to single examples are statistical studies and surveys. And hardly any news source limits themselves to that. So if we're going to accuse them of cherry-picking, we shouldn't stop with just this one story or website.
- PaulHoule 6y ago
  In the Old Testament there was a temple with a circular pit that was 10 cubits across and 30 cubits around. A sensible person would say the ancient Hebrews did not know as much about math as the ancient Greeks. If you think the bible is infallible then you have some contradictions to resolve, maybe you build a hexagonal pit at your temple or maybe the pit had 10^14 kg of neutronium in it, or legislate that pi=3.
Someone 6y ago
Surprisingly, one of those college profs is Timothy Gowers. He probably didn’t realize the audience he was in when he wrote “I can imagine a (slightly contrived) situation in which people might find it useful to say that 2+2=5”

PaulHoule 6y ago

Python thinks 0.1 + 0.2 = 0.30000000000000004 I think that is bad enough.

AnimalMuppet 6y ago

> The woke argue objectivity and any either/or binary about truth (answers are either true or false) are part of white supremacy. But see, critical theory also makes claims about truth that are quite binary. (Try telling them that objectivity and binary truth are not part of white supremacy, or any of a number of other things that contradict their doctrine.) But that means that, by the quoted statement, critical theory is also part of white supremacy. I love using recursion on claims like the quote...

sorokod 6y ago

Why go as far as functions, how about 0 and 1 . One is clearly the phallus to zeros's vagina. Can you not be more binary then that?