Most people can get all the electricity from a standard 120v 15amp outlet.
I work in the electrical industry and we have a joke about power distribution "I get my power from a 120v outlet". We have shirts and bumper stickers with it. It means most people are totally ignorant of how the power is distributed. An apartment building does not have enough power for everyone to use all their appliances at the same time. We count on everyone not using them all at the same time. A building max power is 4-10amps per unit on average. You cannot give 20% of the people the ability to consume an additional 10amps more power starting when they get home from work. At 6pm your building will fairly often exceed 80% of it's current draw. Assume a building with lots of medium end bachelor apartments in a place without AC and 100 units. It might be 600amps at 240v service to the building. If 20% of the people pull 10amps at 120v that's 100 more amps. You are now over 90% of capacity. I don't like that margin. That's less than a Friday night where people all shower and turn on their hair driers or some other fluke synchronization of human behavior away from blowing the circuit for the entire building.
"These people can memorize equations but don't understand them" made me think she may be a biologist or is surrounded by them
Correct and almost all her clients are biologists. A few chemical and material engineers but they can do math.
A man is known by the company he organizes. -- Ambrose Bierce