So hilarious, yet so sad!
November 12, 2007
Will comments on a story in the Manchester Evening News about a lottery that has been scratched because a lot of people get confused about which number is lower: -6 or -7.
I’m in two minds about the “news”. My immediate reaction was to find it hilarious. It proves rule #1: people are stupid. But then I started to think. Nobody could really be that stupid, could they? I can’t help feeling that the story must be fabricated. Maybe it was a slow news day, so the paper cut a few corners. Or could it be that people are so eager to be in the limelight that they’re willing to come off as complete idiots to get their 15 minutes of fame?
My second reaction is depression, and a deep sadness about the state of education in UK. I knew it was bad, but it was news to me that the level of reading and numeracy is so poor here that a significant portion of grown-ups can’t even read a thermometer.
