Negative Numbers are Confusing
 

http://www.manchestereveningnews.co....card_confusion

Using negative numbers on lottery cards creates mass confusion. A tax on those bad at math?

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"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.


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[00:45] <eviljeff> they should have done the Cool Cash Cards in Kelvin

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I am more confused by the poll on the side of the website asking if booze prices should be doubled. Is their some type of government price control of booze over there?

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I think it's probably an error on the website's part. A Google news search suggests what's on the table is a 10% hike in the excise tax on alcohol:

story from the Guardian

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I am more confused by the poll on the side of the website asking if booze prices should be doubled. Is their some type of government price control of booze over there?

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yes, it's called taxation.

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My dad teaches a weekend college class for mainly older people and its algebra 1 and 2, he tells me stories all the time about people who just can't grasp the concept of negative numbers.

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My Uncle works for the Indiana Lottory and when they first introduced Texas Hold Em scratch cards they had by far the highest number of unclaimed prizes of any scratch card they had ever produced, presumably because people couldn't discern winning hands.

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this story tilts me way more than i think it should.

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My girlfriend is in teacher's college. She told me that ~60% of her class of university graduates who want to be grade school teachers failed a grade 6 math test. That put me on tilt. How the hell can kids learn math if their teachers can't do grade 6 math?

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http://www.manchestereveningnews.co....card_confusion

Using negative numbers on lottery cards creates mass confusion. A tax on those bad at math?

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"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.


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that quote is so awesome, like Camelot are tweaking the laws of physics to avoid paying out or something.