Quote:...You see, I've worked with college students who can't perform addition unless it involves only positive integers. In other words, their math skills are at a first grade level.
I've had a few friends who, just this past semester, took a computing science course on game theory that was cross listed with philosophy as well as a Introduction to Cognitive Science class. Our circle of friends were greatly amused, and horrified, repeatedly, by stories of incompetence, irrationality, and sheer WTF-ness displayed by our less scientifically-inclined colleagues.
Two of the few tales that are repeated time and time again are of one particularly vocal student that complained having to plot (only positive) decimal numbers on a graph was work that was unfair towards the non-computing students, and one female student that dismissed the computational representation of mind as false because "It takes the mystery out of everything."
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