Darioo ( 11 years ago )
Ian: It seems to me that these algebra stnrdaads are one more example of a general trend : people tend to think that other people are just like them, on the inside.Freud called it , more or less.And as difficult as it is for a moron to imagine what it might be like to be a genius, lately I've been wondering whether the opposite might be even more difficult - whether educated folks [IQ 120, 130, 140, etc] might have no idea at all what life is like for someone with an IQ of 80, or 70 [which would encompass literally tens of millions of these minorities].What would it be like to be unable to perform simply Algebra?What would it be like if you were so stupid that you were [more or less] incapable of being taught how to solve a pair of equations likex + 2y = 22x + y = 1During the immigration debate this past spring, I actually spent some time trying to imagine just that - what it would be like if your mind were trapped in a brain which couldn't perform the higher intellectual functions.I sure do hope that I'll never be forced to experience it, but I suppose we'll all succomb to dementia eventually.