<p>Do SO many people miss the SAT question of the day's? Today's for example: 38% of people missed the ridiculously easy math question that a 1st grader could answer, upon being told what the superscript 2 means. Unreal.</p>
<p>How can humans be so incredibly unintelligent that a basic, basic problem such as today's SAT QotD will be missed by such an enormous number of seemingly literate people?</p>
<p>When I get onto my email, I can never see the math questions - the diagrams and answers don’t show up. So to get to the actual question with the proposed answers, I have to click on a random one. And THEN I solve the questions.
Maybe anecdotal, but I bet that’s the case for a lot of people.
You probably weren’t expecting that logical an answer, heh.</p>
<p>Umm. How many people do you think take it seriously. Like, it’s really not that big of a deal. If it takes more than just a second to answer, some may just quickly click to see the correct answer. I know it’s happened to me before.</p>
<p>Same thing happened to me, Retro. The stuff wouldn’t show up so I would guess a random answer which would open up a web page. I bet this is the cause of a significant amount of wrong answers.</p>
<p>So I tried it out because of this post, and because I read your “superscript 2” comment I clicked on p^2 when I saw it in the answer list. Then as the result was loading I was like “haha, no that’s not right”. Result loads… “haha, whoops”. Then I read the question again and clicked the right answer.</p>
<p>Man I dunno, man. It’s a good thing you’re so smart and intelligent and contribute so much, OP. What would we do without the likes of you?</p>
<p>But it seriously more annoying when 80% of the people get a question right, and me and my friend are all like this : -_-</p>
<p>because people don’t take it all that seriously. it’s not the real SAT. I bet a lot of people breeze over, just click and answer, and then realize they made a silly mistake</p>
<p>Did anyone here look at the question the OP is talking about? It’s not a ridiculously easy question that he makes it appear to be (I did get it right on my first try, however, but I can see how many people wouldn’t). Some people are talented at math and have no problems understanding SAT level questions, but not everyone is like that.</p>
<p>I agree it was slightly difficult (the math problem yesterday). And by difficult I means it require more thinking.</p>
<p>the neurodiversity of humanity is the source of a lot of confusion i think.</p>
<p>neurodiversity? I don’t thnk that’s a word.</p>
<p>Dude, what 1st graders are you talking to? I don’t think you’ll get told what things mean on the SAT, and a lot of people don’t take it seriously, considering that it’s just a practice question.</p>
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<p>I know i didn’t use it in the strict sense that it’s defined, but it is a word, and a word which i like :D.</p>
<p>?.? That better not be on the SAT…</p>
<p>You can attach the prefix neuro to pretty much anything nowadays.</p>