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This pretty much sums up america (and other english speaking nations) in this thread about a 3rd grade math problem for a few reasons:
1) It just shows how grossly unintelligent most people, especially americans, are that they arent even educated at a 3rd grade level or in the most basic of math.
2) It shows Dunning-kruger effect that has infected americans. Despite most people clearly not having a clue as to how to do this basic math problem these people getting the problem wrong are claiming to be math experts. Sorry but among those who studied math NO ONE would disagree on this problem
3) It shows how rampant lying is a huge issue in english speaking countries particularly when it comes to "being right" about pretty much everything. People claimed to have advanced math degrees and yet clearly couldnt even do a third grade math problem. I have never met ANYONE with such a degree who would disagree on this problem, no way.
Do americans and british even realize just how pathetic they look anymore, seriously?
@freemo When I first saw this all I could think was "this is why nobody uses the divide symbol", all ambiguity disappears when it's written as a fraction.
@comphys Yes thats certainly true, use the divide symboland it has a sort of implied parenthesis. But thats not really always an option. There are many times we have to represent math on a single line, so people still need to understand the standard/convention and be able to apply it for inline equations.
