Comments on: Stimulating dyscalculia adds up http://www.sciencebase.com/science-blog/stimulating-dyscalculia-adds-up.html Science Blog from Freelance Science Writer David Bradley Sat, 21 Nov 2009 14:14:50 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.6 hourly 1 By: David Bradley http://www.sciencebase.com/science-blog/stimulating-dyscalculia-adds-up.html/comment-page-1#comment-83102 David Bradley Mon, 26 Mar 2007 07:36:10 +0000 http://www.sciencebase.com/science-blog/stimulating-dyscalculia-adds-up.html#comment-83102 I don't think anyone was trying to say it is not a real disorder. The research on which I reported is there to try and help medical science understand the problem and partly to make the disorder widely known. Dyscalculia is not the more common and annoying generic innumeracy and (scientific illiteracy) on which many the reputation of many a fool rests (particularly in government and the civil service, where having an arts degree and feigning complete ignorance of mathematics and science seems to be the only way to get on. Imagine, a science PhD or a mathematician running a trade or industry department, for instance! I don’t think anyone was trying to say it is not a real disorder. The research on which I reported is there to try and help medical science understand the problem and partly to make the disorder widely known. Dyscalculia is not the more common and annoying generic innumeracy and (scientific illiteracy) on which many the reputation of many a fool rests (particularly in government and the civil service, where having an arts degree and feigning complete ignorance of mathematics and science seems to be the only way to get on. Imagine, a science PhD or a mathematician running a trade or industry department, for instance!

]]> By: DY5K4LKUL1K http://www.sciencebase.com/science-blog/stimulating-dyscalculia-adds-up.html/comment-page-1#comment-82668 DY5K4LKUL1K Sun, 25 Mar 2007 01:30:29 +0000 http://www.sciencebase.com/science-blog/stimulating-dyscalculia-adds-up.html#comment-82668 err... dyscalculia already is a real disorder. Better to be innumerate than ignorant. As of figuring out tips and make change, it doesn't mean I can't do that... only it's the other one who complains! ;) err… dyscalculia already is a real disorder.
Better to be innumerate than ignorant.

As of figuring out tips and make change, it doesn’t mean I can’t do that… only it’s the other one who complains! ;)

]]> By: DV82XL http://www.sciencebase.com/science-blog/stimulating-dyscalculia-adds-up.html/comment-page-1#comment-82623 DV82XL Sat, 24 Mar 2007 21:02:20 +0000 http://www.sciencebase.com/science-blog/stimulating-dyscalculia-adds-up.html#comment-82623 More likely evoking dyscalculia will now be the default excuse for those types. More likely evoking dyscalculia will now be the default excuse for those types.

]]> By: David Bradley http://www.sciencebase.com/science-blog/stimulating-dyscalculia-adds-up.html/comment-page-1#comment-82401 David Bradley Sat, 24 Mar 2007 08:10:59 +0000 http://www.sciencebase.com/science-blog/stimulating-dyscalculia-adds-up.html#comment-82401 Yes, there are rather a lot of people who seem to wear their innumeracy and scientific illiteracy as a badge of honour Yes, there are rather a lot of people who seem to wear their innumeracy and scientific illiteracy as a badge of honour

]]> By: Robert Bowen http://www.sciencebase.com/science-blog/stimulating-dyscalculia-adds-up.html/comment-page-1#comment-82123 Robert Bowen Fri, 23 Mar 2007 20:36:30 +0000 http://www.sciencebase.com/science-blog/stimulating-dyscalculia-adds-up.html#comment-82123 We might hope that if dyscalculia becomes widely known as a real disorder, those annoying people who are mere innumerates will quit flaunting and bragging about their inability to figure tips and make change. We might hope that if dyscalculia becomes widely known as a real disorder, those annoying people who are mere innumerates will quit flaunting and bragging about their inability to figure tips and make change.

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