I saw this on the internet and I didn’t know if this was true. Could people really be this bad at understanding fractions?
So I Googled it. Sure enough, this actually is true. Here’s the validation from the horse’s mouth, so to speak.
This is yet another reason why it’s fruitless to argue with people online.
This, That, and the Other 
What can you do about these people!
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The larger the number that is in the denominator, the smaller value this number will have.
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Exactly. You can’t change anyone
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I guess they never got the lesson that size isn’t just width, it’s also depth. We have been stupid for longer than I realized.
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I was an advocate for a teenage foster child once – she wanted to go to a Chinese restaurant and once there got very agitated because she couldn’t order fried chicken and french fries. So the lack of what we consider basic common sense is horrifying.
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Should have gone to KFC. 😂
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People suck at math
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I had heard this many years ago as a study in a Marketing class I was taking. It is astounding because most people would never mix up the sizes of a quarter and a half pound. Even if you weren’t good at math, logically a third (1/4 – 1/3 – 1/2) is bigger than a quarter.
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Well, 4 is larger than 3, which is larger than 2, right? 😂
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Nah, I can see why they thought that. They equated it to being a third less.
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Don’t kids learn fractions in like the 5th grade?
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No, they learn how to YouTube 🙄
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My inner media wonk says that people don’t read , and the way to get a message across like this is through visual comparison that makes the difference clear. Good television commercials never leave the thinking up to the victim, I mean customer.
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It’s hard to believe so many people could be so dumb. Did the ads show a visual comparison of the two sizes?
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The ads didn’t show side-by-side pictures, but the text says that A&W has “bigger, beefier, third pound burgers.”
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Yikes!
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Yikes, indeed.
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I generally take a minute, but I get there, lol. I guess as well though, I don’t use fractions every day. So I always have to think about it for a moment. Things like that though, should be pretty easy, lol
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🤦♀️Some people never will understand!
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damn! These people are plain stupid!
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