Re: The Dumbing Down of America
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Since I use my calculator for gaussian elimination, does that mean I is stoopid?
Since I would prefer to use spell-check and take a fraction of a second finishing a task instead of minutes I is stoopid?
Don't confuse "lean" with stupidity. Work smart, not hard!
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the problem with spell check is that it has made people lazy with regard to simple grammatical mistakes - so you will see 'to' instead of 'too' and 'your' instead of 'you're' all over because spell check won't catch these sorts of things. I think the calculator example is somewhat different, as it takes the place of simple (but time-consuming) tasks.
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