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Managers Sales people, and Lawyers with poor understanding of math as basic as adding fractions are vary risky. It's not that they can't preform most job fucti
by onemoreact 15y ago
Managers Sales people, and Lawyers with poor understanding of math as basic as adding fractions are vary risky. It's not that they can't preform most job fuctions it's that they are extreamly likely to make costly mistakes. When should I add one more person to keep people from charging as much overtime. Or the old should I offer overtime or comp time etc. As to sales people and Lawyers effective negotiation require them to be able to say: I can't drop the price any more but I can do X (which costs us less) etc.
Graphics designers often use a lot of math directly when working out layout's and things. An intuitive understanding and lot's of effort can help compensate but it's a significant loss if they can't do simple math on how tall / wide things are when you scale them.
- absconditus 15y agoWhat about poor language skills? You made a mistake in nearly every sentence in your comment. I apologize if English is not your native tongue.
- Goronmon 15y agoWhat about poor language skills? You made a mistake in nearly every sentence in your comment. Then I guess he won't be using his comment history on HN as a reference for his next interview.
- onemoreact 15y agoI would argue that inside a company it's communication that's important not polish. It's only when your company is interacting with the public that polish becomes important.
- absconditus 15y agoI have found that those who write poorly in the corporate world generally think poorly as well.
- gnaritas 15y agoThat applies in general, not just in the corporate world. Lazy writing implies lazy thinking.
- MaysonL 15y agoYes, but... Lousy spelling and punctuation are not necessarily lazy writing.
- gnaritas 15y agoWhat else would you call them?
- jarek 15y agoNegatively motivated writing.
- drumdance 15y agoDyslexic. An ex-girlfriend of mine is very bright and gifted at logic (majored in philosophy), but her spelling and syntax are terrible.
- gnaritas 15y agoDisabilities don't count, I'm talking about people who can write better if they cared to try, not those who can't.
- onemoreact 15y agoI find those that think in such general terms also tend to think poorly ;-) My personal experience is the best writers rarely have much to say, but I have probably spent to much time in the consulting world where saying something meaningful is far less important than saying something well. Still, I try and avoid generalizing to much because incite rarely comes from generalities.