Should Math be taught in schools? Lets ask the "Miss USA pageant contestants"

How can they be that age and still so stupid?

If you attention has been concentrated on looking good in a swimsuit, and sounding attractive when interviewed by the kind of elderly gent that acts as a judge at that kind of event, mathematics is not going to have got a lot of your attention.

Hedy Lamar seems to have been an exception.

Disgusting!

Yes. Very intelligent.

Didn't stop her marrying a total creep, but at least she had the sense to get out from under.

Intelligence is just one of a number of useful personality traits.

I overhead a couple high school/college age girls in Starbucks the other day chatting with some science textbooks splayed out on the table.

"Why do we gotta learn this stuff, anyway? I'll be married pretty soon and my husband's going to be so handsome/rich that I'll be taken care of and be on vacation so much that I won't even have time for a job"

True story.

This is, of course, just a parody. Many of these women are not even close to attractive enough to become Miss Anywhere.

Unfortunately, most people are unable or unwilling to see that this is a metaphor for the other science vs. truth discussion. It is trying to illustrate how spectacularly stupid you have to be to reject science.

OMG

(snip attractiveness comment)

Looked at that way, I see your point. Maybe there is yet hope.

Everyone knows that the square root of 16 is the sign of the devil. Math!! Bad! Bad!

Another example of why all government funding of "education" should be eliminated... it's a gross waste of resources. ...Jim Thompson

I think the Thompson gun missed the point. Is he actually a bot?

ndout:

The US hasn't got government funding of education. It's organsied and paid for at the school district level, which tends to explain why the quality is so variable.

As usual with most US complaints about "government funding", the problem is n't with government funding as such, but rather with the fact that the US r uns it's government remarkably badly. Maybe if they went out and got a bett er - or at least less antiquated - constitution they'd do better.

A new generation of politicians, less habituated to being bribed by lobbyis ts, might help too.

Less so than krw. But check out James Arthur for mindless repetition of the same implausible arguments.

You guys are so gullible - that's not real:

Correct. Robert Rolan first mentioned it and I re-ran it. It became obvious then.

Den tirsdag den 18. juli 2017 kl. 02.37.01 UTC+2 skrev snipped-for-privacy@gmail.com:

You're being cynical. The real contestants would have answerd the question just like in the video.

Are you saying this incoherent ditzhead is not real:

Robert Roland wrote on 7/18/2017 7:08 AM:

I'm sorry, I'm not clear. Are you saying we should reject truth?

Maybe I should have used some quotation marks there?

I am talking about the kind of truth that gets indoctrinated into many children's minds since the day they are born. Repeated over and over, until it becomes truth.