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  • You lost me on the section when you started going into different calculators, but I read the rest of the post. Well written even if I ultimately disagree!

    The reason imo there is ambiguity with these math problems is bad/outdated teaching. The way I was taught pemdas, you always do the left-most operations first, while otherwise still following the ordering.

    Doing this for 6÷2(1+2), there is no ambiguity that the answer is 9. You do your parentheses first as always, 6÷2(3), and then since division and multiplication are equal in ordering weight, you do the division first because it's the left most operation, leaving us 3(3), which is of course 9.

    If someone wrote this equation with the intention that the answer is 1, they wrote the equation wrong, simple as that.

  • but does lead poisoning correlate with marked low emotional intelligence?

    Yes, strongly. Lead exposure, especially in childhood, is known to lower IQ and also decrease empathy.

    The other things you mentioned are definitely major factors as well, but yeah all that lead fucked the older generations brains.

  • You're completely missing the point. Yeah, this stuff takes time, and it will continue to take time. The point is, this article saying we're "closing in on it" is clickbait garbage that's just as useful as the one a decade ago saying we are "closing in on it", and a decade before that.

  • the movements required for your fingers are moreorless that of your feet in real life skating.

    Have you played Sessions? This is how it works in that game too, literally the only difference is your fingers are on analog sticks rather than on the sheet of glass that is your phone screen. The developers ended up including an alternative control scheme more similar to EA's Skate series because of how intense the learning curve on their control scheme is.

    but taking away the actual placement of fingers on the board onscreen would take away an awful lot of the reason people enjoy it

    I guess this is where we just have to agree to disagree. I can't think of any reason I'd find blocking part of my field of view as an enhancement to the experience.