“It’s enough to make one cry.” Dougal blog.
“If all it takes to be ‘misled’ is to have a total lack of primary school level numeracy, it’s a wonder these people can tie their shoes in the morning – but I guess that’s why slip-ons were invented.” Steve Stretting.com
“Never underestimate the power of stupid people in large numbers. I feel for the support person at the other end of that phone conversation.” NIxGuy.com.
So what are they all talking about? Yes the blogosphere has been abuzz with incredulity this week after the M.E.N published this story about a woman who couldn’t understand negative numbers.
If you’ve been away from a computer for the week the story centered on a women from Manchester who remained adamant she had won on a scratchcard:
“I phoned Camelot and they fobbed me off with some story that -6 is higher – not lower – than -8 but I’m not having it.” has to be the quote of the year.
The story has been shared on social networking sites, tagged, blogged and emailed many, many thousands of times since it was published last week. So many times in fact that its been the most viewed story on the M.E.N website day after day. It’s ‘gone viral’ to use the jargon.
It seems everyone just loves to pass on evidence of stupidity.
Dim Sum Digital 
I used too sell pigeons and mice in Tibb Street.now I have a place in Malibu and a home in the Algarve
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The World is full of peasants. Anyone with an IQ lower than 140 should be terminated – And women should be obscene and not heard.
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When I was doing my teacher training one of our lecturers said ‘Maths graduates are the highest paid so why do you want to be teachers?’ I taught for 3 years then decided to set up my own business….
Sadly the calibre of teachers is generally a lot lower, some of the younger people on my course could not even do an O’Level paper from my year (having done GCSEs).
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