I mean, obviously ten.
But I at least understand 16.
I deeply worry about the percentage just next to the other three numbers.
13 is probably the next most chosen because it’s closest to 10.
Not including the correct answer is also a form of engagement bait to get additional comments and such saying “wait the real answer is 10, wtf?”
Why worry? You can see them on the right side of the image
It not even remotely possible to make an odd number out of that.
The numbers on the right-hand side are what I'm actually working about.
I was trying yo make a shitty joke conflating you worrying (having concern) with you worrrying (wondering what).
an odd number out of t
sorry about that, completely wooshed me
Was this multiple choice? Because if 10 isn't an option, people are just going go answer whatever.
It was engagement bait. It's always engagement bait.
A multiple choice question where all the answers are wrong, says nothing about math or the mathematical understanding of the general population.
This is engagementbait and its hooked you too.
The annoying prevalence of this meme suggests to me that an alarming number of people lack even a middle-school understanding of basic arithmetic.
Wait until you hear what the average reading level is.
It’s not a bad analogy for american democracy. None of the options are correct, so you either pick the wrong answer that makes some amount of sense or write in the correct answer and be completely ignored in the tally of results.
Let's just agree to disagree, then. /s
That 10 guy is totally biased.
We should hear from both sides.
I say we vote on it. Oh, wait. /s
This is why I write it as 2+(2x4). The parentheses aren't techniclly necessary, but they do make it clearer to people who haven't been in a school for 35 years.
just get rid of the x. 2+(24) = 26
Why write more than necessary? Surely 26 = 26 is enough.
2+8x
SADMEP
This isn’t even math, just convention on rules for order of operations.
In america, math IS a democracy, and this is why we are losing our democracy.
So people just assumed an imaginary parentheses?
Parenthesis, Powers(exponents), Multiplication, Division, Addition, Subtraction is the order of mathematics.
Yes, that’s why I was asking why 59% just assumed there were parentheses in the equation.
I see your thinking now. I thought you might not remember that multiplication, division comes before addition, subtraction and were just doing right to left operations.
Didn't really understand how the imaginary parenthesis came in.
*is a common convention
Conventions shmonventions
I'm worried how many people answered the odd numbers for an equation where it is only possible to end up with an even numbered answer.
I know this is a PEMDAS joke, one of many for the PEMDAS throne.
But yeah, we need to really, really worry about the coming day when "math becomes a democracy" and that is already happening for a wide array of other facts and knowledge about the world.
Whatever "civility politics" liberals infested our collective minds with have to be abandoned. We have to get a lot harder and a lot less tolerant of other people's "beliefs" even if you think "Well they're only harming themselves by thinking 1x1=4" but they're not, we need to start viewing these people as threats to our future. We no longer live in isolation, whatever bullshit your parents drove into you about "nothing on the internet being real and shouldn't matter" was utter hogwash and even less relevant in 2025/2026. We get everything from the internet, including a sense of community and connection, which is why nutsoids find each other and turn something like a joke about earth being flat into an entire anti-science movement.
If you've ever seen those dumb sci-fi shows or movies where science if forbidden and people caught learning science are punished, and thought "that's so unrealistic" well I have some real bad news for you.
Yeah. It's definitely "the liberals" responsible for poor math skills.
But if enough people are doing it wrong, that means it’s common usage, and therefore it’s right!
-The English Language
2+2*4=16~4~ ☝️🤓
@Mog_Spawn @humour 2 2x4's are not as strong as a 4x4. But you have to remember to take of 1/4" from every width.
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