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		vjvjvjvjghv 38 days ago \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Outsourcing thinking You could argue that a lot of the people who few up with calculators have lost any kind of mathematical intuition. I am always horrified how bad a lot of people are with simple math, interest rates and other things. This definitely opened up a lot of opportunities for companies to exploit this ignorance.

rco8786 37 days ago [–]

This implies that people had better mathematical intuition, on average, pre calculator which seems difficult to believe.

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