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Comment author: James_Miller 05 July 2012 07:41:53AM 3 points [-]

Whether such an investment is worthwhile is a different story.

No, and it's child abuse when schools put enormous pressure on low IQ children to learn this kind of stuff.

Comment author: shminux 05 July 2012 03:18:03PM *  2 points [-]

No, and it's child abuse when schools put enormous pressure on low IQ children to learn this kind of stuff.

I mean people who have low aptitude for math, and whose general intelligence (IQ) may well be above average.

For example, were singing mandatory for graduation, I would have had trouble finishing school, because I cannot hold a tune if my life depended on it. Well, as I said, I could have probably learned it with 1000x the time/effort/investment of your average person, but it would be silly to require that.