How do you know where the smartest people in the world are? Where are the statistics for that?
I know that when I was graduating from University there were some scary numbers being thrown out. Students in the USA graduated with Engineering degrees were going to be eclipsed by 10 fold by Chinese graduates.
A quick google search shows that we have about 1,300,000 college graduates each year. 55% of those who start finish. 50% don't finish after 6 years.
China had 7,000,000 college graduates this year.
Not saying quantity over quality (especially considering that I think Chinese education is terrible) but how does one count the smartest people in the world?
I see you capitalizing the TRI in triangle but have no idea why.
i'm just sharing a funny video..
Jesus Christ why can't you guys take it that way?
I see you capitalizing the TRI in triangle but have no idea why.
I've hated that video for years. Lots of those people thought they were trick questions because of the context. Think about it: if Star Wars were a fictionalized sci-fi re-telling of a historical event, mostly only the Star Wars nerds would know/care. They were obviously instructed to guess at most. Yes, there were genuine idiots in there too but that's mostly cherry-picking and catching off-guard.
TRIangle - 3 sides
TRIathalon - 3 events
TRIple - 3 times
You see a pattern emerging?
As this is a tech forum lets add TRIforce to that aswell.
It goes One. Two. Tri.
Duh
Their population is much larger than ours. Stupid point is stupid.
Also, Chinese PhD programs pump out documents like no one's business. The real value is how many people reference those papers. The average American PhD research is referenced more than 600 times. The average Chinese PhD research is referenced once.
I don't have time to google what you are talking about. Polygon? Vertices? Denoted? You are just making up words now to try and sound smart.lol uh huh..
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tri
A triangle is one of the basic shapes in geometry: a polygon with three corners or vertices and three sides or edges which are line segments. A triangle with vertices A, B, and C is denoted \triangle ABC.
Now if you got anything else that i may be missing i would love to hear it.
I don't have time to google what you are talking about. Polygon? Vertices? Denoted? You are just making up words now to try and sound smart.
Wow almost as funny as Jaywalking, and that's really saying something!
Like I said: context. I don't know where they got "four," but I immediately thought that the people being asked would try to incorporate "inside" and "outside" in their answer like so many other "how many sides.." trick question do.What the fuck is tricky about asking how many sides a triangle has?
Like I said: context. I don't know where they got "four," but I immediately thought that the people being asked would try to incorporate "inside" and "outside" in their answer like so many other "how many sides.." trick question do.
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No. Just...no.
Just like in no context is Europe a country, there is no context in which a TRIANGLE has anything OTHER THAN 3 SIDES.
Get it through your thick skull: context is what led them to believe it was a trick question and give a different answer than they otherwise would have. Nowhere did I ever say that context changed the correct answer. People are not expected to know the answers to jokes or trick questions and the answers would not be the same or else they'd be pointless (that's why the person did not guess three). It's beyond obvious that they were encouraged to guess.