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>>14617087
>I still don't believe this. There is just no way this is true. People talk about concepts like halves, thirds and quarters all the time
The people who understand those concepts talk about them. If only half the population understands them then it will still appear like people talk about them all the time. It's survivorship bias.

>Surely everyone understands at least those.
I attended a religious university for a little while that accepted anybody with a HS diploma. There was a black kid in my dorm the first few weeks who didn't sign up for classes and genuinely thought it was optional. He was waiting to get on the basketball team and thought he was in basketball camp I guess. The admin didn't think anyone could be that stupid so he slipped through the cracks. Pretty sure my RA said he was getting kicked out for blatantly stealing other people's stuff and other lawbreaking and that's when they realized he didn't sign up for classes. Right before he left he was trying to explain to the RA that he didn't know how his CD ended up in someone else's CD player he obviously stole and left out in the open in his room where the owner from down the hall coincidentally walked in and saw it. It was a comically ridiculous situation.

People are more stupid than you can imagine.