I wish that I had some mod points today so that I could mod this as funny. Now that I think about it, I seem to remember that David Parness, years ago, proved that it is not possible to guarantee that code is bug free, but perhaps I am misremembering something.

Oh not this nonsense again. The Nazis were socialist in the same sense that the former East Germany was a democratic republic.

Most people learn as much as they need to about something that they use, but no more. Most drivers have no real understanding of how their cars work, because they do not need to. Most homeowners cannot do more than basic home repairs without screwing them up, because they find it easier to hire someone instead of learning how to do it themselves. Most people invest in things like mutual funds because they are not interested in getting involved in the nitty-gritty of individual investment instruments. The same is true for computers. Most people never need to use them for anything more than simple tasks, so they never learn to use them at a level beyond what is needed to do those tasks. They do not need to, so they put their effort into learning things that they actually need to do on a more frequent basis.

The point is that many, if not most, Mac users like the simple OS X Ui, and like not having to think about it too much. Apple is, for the most part, giving them what they want. This is not good for power users, but we are not where the money is.

I suspect that if you asked your average US middle-aged adult to take a high school English exam they would have trouble with it too.

No, it means that he has not had to use any maths skills in years, or perhaps decades. Also, do not forget that the test that he took was not the same as the tests that the questions in the article were taken from. For all we know the maths questions in his test were significantly harder. They were, after all, 10th grade maths questions and not 4th grade ones.

No, the guy took a different test from the ones that were quoted from in the article.

It seems that people in the US do not want governors or presidents who are highly intelligent. They want people who they think that they can identify with. The problem with this is that being a governor, or president, is not something that most people can identify with.

All but question five are trivial without a calculator.

Most people are not as dumb as you think they are, and not as smart as they think they are.