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Is this an age thing? I’ve been surprised a number of times by people not being familiar with this format, but they were only a year or 2 younger than me. (I’m
by drdeca 5y ago
Is this an age thing?
I’ve been surprised a number of times by people not being familiar with this format, but they were only a year or 2 younger than me. (I’m 25)
It’s a nice format for thinking about things, so if people stopped learning it, that seems unfortunate to me.
- Taniwha 5y agoMay also be an American thing (at least the whole spending a lot of time on analogies for SAT testing thing)
- sellyme 5y agoFor what it's worth I'm a 25-year-old Australian who never encountered this specific syntax in schooling (it was always phrased "as <x> is to what?"), but am still very familiar with it from general interactions online. It's probably just a matter of how strongly your immediate social circle feels about formal logic.
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- Sharlin 5y agoAs one data point, we never did these sort of analogy puzzles in school in Finland (but we don't have standardized multiple-choice testing either). I'm only familiar with the concept and format as a part of the general anglosphere meme complex that you naturally get exposed to if you spend time on the internet.
- XaspR8d 5y agoI just assume I'm overly familiar with it as someone who was a natural test-taker. (Early 30s)