People Can't Read Charts
By Morgan
@OneOfMany (12150)
United States
May 5, 2017 8:08am CST
I was looking at a chart on the internet this morning and it was for a game, listing how much exp (experience) was needed to reach the next level. It listed the starting point, level 1; the exp needed to reach that level, 0 exp, and the total exp needed, 0 exp. Then it went up from there, but everyone kept complaining that the chart wasn't right and that the values were wrong and that it was messed up.
I have decided that people can't read charts. Even though it was perfectly correct, more than half of the comments were on how it was displaying the wrong numbers. Is this what education is doing these days? Producing morons that can't read a simple chart?
Nothing productive will get done for the future if people can't even understand a simple display of information. This wasn't even vitally important, but I know that financial charts get a whole lot more confusing... which is why people need to know how to read information or else they will get suckered and tricked for the rest of their lives.
What do you think? Can you read charts easily?
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8 responses
@Poppylicious (11134)
• United Kingdom
5 May 17
If American education is anything like in the UK then teaching moves on to the next topic regardless of whether the previous has been learnt or not. If you get it, you get it. If you don't, you may never.
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@OneOfMany (12150)
• United States
5 May 17
Mainly because people refuse to self-educate after 'learning' something. However, that's fine if they ignore that information, but to go out of their way to comment on a situation of established information and say it's wrong because they can't read it, then that's a serious problem. It's a lot like an illiterate voicing an opinion for something they can't even read.
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@Poppylicious (11134)
• United Kingdom
5 May 17
@OneOfMany Or maybe they've been taught wrong as children, by teaching staff who aren't specialists in the subject area!
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@OneOfMany (12150)
• United States
5 May 17
@Poppylicious Perhaps, but some charts are so simplistic that there should be nothing to mistake, and yet people do anyway. I think it's the instantaneous information availability. People hate having to think about it.
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@just4him (323168)
• Green Bay, Wisconsin
16 May 17
I am always dumbfounded by the lack of knowledge disbursed to our children in the educational system. They have calculators for math, and everything is done for them. Even in the work place they don't need to count back change, the drawer just spits out the correct amount and they hand it over. Our society is creating morons, and it is very sad. Yes, I can read charts. I'm old school - paper and pen.
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@just4him (323168)
• Green Bay, Wisconsin
17 May 17
@OneOfMany That's good they do that. I haven't seen anybody here count back change yet. I think 5th grade was when they introduced long division, or it might have been 4th grade. I couldn't get it. My grandmother showed me how to do it. So I really did my division twice - the old way, and then the new way.
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@OneOfMany (12150)
• United States
5 May 17
I understand. Information comes too easily now, so sitting and thinking it out even if it takes a second longer is far too long for some people now.
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@Jessicalynnt (50523)
• Centralia, Missouri
6 May 17
depends on the chart, but usually yes
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@OneOfMany (12150)
• United States
15 May 17
I know, there are so many people that just have no ability when it comes to simple addition. I mean, obviously 1 + 1 = 10 is a true statement! And when they disagree, they tell me that the answer is two and I agree. Yet they still tell me it's wrong. Seriously... kids these days.
To be honest, I had a horrible time with math in high school. I'm not a visual or audio learner (I learn through understanding and writing) and copying notes on a blackboard (eventually white board) did nothing for me. Now if you give me a random equation, I can generally work it out. However, advance calculus escapes me these days (because I haven't needed it for so long).
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@OneOfMany (12150)
• United States
15 May 17
@TheHorse If I had two more courses of math in college I could have had a minor in math. But I was already overwhelmed enough!
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@TheHorse (238306)
• Walnut Creek, California
15 May 17
@OneOfMany By the time I got to multiple integrals is was "done" with math.
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@responsiveme (22923)
• India
5 May 17
Charts are made so that the vast information can be easily displayed and easily understood ...Yes I can read charts
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@OneOfMany (12150)
• United States
5 May 17
That's the purpose, I think people are so impatient any more that they don't take the time to figure out how to read it.
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@OneOfMany (12150)
• United States
9 May 17
@responsiveme People have been dumbed down to the point where even something easy is complicated.
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@responsiveme (22923)
• India
6 May 17
@OneOfMany so now something easier than charts have got to be made...Ha ha
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@OneOfMany (12150)
• United States
9 May 17
@pgntwo Ooh, flowcharts are fun. I know a lot of people that can't understand those either. But then, I had courses teaching that kind of thing. That and Boolean Algebra isn't really something understood by common folk.
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@OneOfMany (12150)
• United States
6 May 17
Well at least it sounds like you are okay with charts. :D
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@pgntwo (22405)
• Derry, Northern Ireland
6 May 17
@OneOfMany Charts, tables, flowcharts, decision trees and even checklists... So many ways to communicate basic or detailed information.
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@FayeHazel (40230)
• United States
16 May 17
If charts are simple I can read them, or I can figure them out if given a key. I know what you mean though. I used t organize events. Put all the info on 1 page. Time, Place, Date, Amount of Ticket, How to buy ticket. Followed by a brief description of the event and my contact info. It was astounding the number of people who would rather write to me to ask any of those things, time, date, cost, etc... it's like... you had to look at the page and that info in order to email me..... ????
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@OneOfMany (12150)
• United States
17 May 17
People don't like difficult things, and sadly, in this dumbed-down educated world, simple things are difficult. I used to organize events for a magazine calendar, and some of the events would confuse people, though the info was all there.
