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[Poll #311278]

(If you want to quantify this, interpret the questions in terms of mean scores on a hypothetical arithmetic test.)

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[atreic.livejournal.com]

I feel that I have below average arithmatic, I'm much slower than M at scoring card games, and occasionally stumble over things I've forgotten but used to know (like 8 x 7) And I persistently curse that you're not allowed stupid calculators in Cambridge maths exams as it shouldn't be about your ability to add up / multiply fractions. My gut reaction was to tick your "below average" box.

However, objectively, I am above average for the population by miles. I got full marks on all mental arithmatic tests at school, did brilliently at the non-calculator papers, and so the more I think of it, the more I can't in good faith tick the "I'm bad at arithmatic" box. I'm far more numerate than "average"

I think that it might be that mathmos are worse at arithmatic than the average *Cambridge* person... ie, because we're really intelligent people we're better at arithmatic than average people, because the average is really very low (in fact, I'm better at French than average I suppose, and have an A at GCSE to proove it, but feel really really stupid and can speak practically no French) but that just comes from general "being good at stuff" and not Mathmoness.

[j4.livejournal.com]

below average arithmatic

And spelling...