illegals go back home!!!

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Jiro said:
visually concrete examples are very important because people just don't get it. That's why we have graphs, pie charts, et cetera.

That's why our news stations spent millions on delivering visually-concrete explanations. Remember CNN's awesome touch-screen display?
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Righto. Me think somebody got a little defensive acting as a representative ("we") saying there was no need for me to post that link of what a trillion dollars look like. Ever noticed how tiny that man is in that picture next to a trillion dollars worth of stacked $100 bills on crates? Truly impressive. It's also called, "teaching." Any teacher knows that by using visual examples to students help give them a better idea or concept of what's being explained. :cool2:
 
kokonut said:
My PhD? Where?

Again, a salient fact that some people do not understand nor fathom on just how big a trillion is like when used as a number and that pictorial example was for others to see what a trillion dollar looks like. Simply put.
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My point exactly. You don't have one. It was obvious in your comment. You are simply one of those people who are terribly threatened by other's accomplishments, and feel the need to insult in order to make yourself feel superior. It's called overcompensation for an inferiority complex. Doesn't win friends, nor influence people. Simply makes you a lonely, angry, person always trying to prove that they aren't a lonely, angry person.

Could you please write that last sentence in proper English grammar? Surely someone that is so far superior to the rest of us in intellect and visualization abilities could use proper grammar.
 
jillio said:
My point exactly. You don't have one. It was obvious in your comment. You are simply one of those people who are terribly threatened by other's accomplishments, and feel the need to insult in order to make yourself feel superior. It's called overcompensation for an inferiority complex. Doesn't win friends, nor influence people. Simply makes you a lonely, angry, person always trying to prove that they aren't a lonely, angry person.
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huh..... funny.... I had that exactly same thought... :hmm:
 
Jiro said:
visually concrete examples are very important because people just don't get it. That's why we have graphs, pie charts, et cetera.

That's why our news stations spent millions on delivering visually-concrete explanations. Remember CNN's awesome touch-screen display?
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Yeah, visually concrete examples are important...especially when one does not have any fluid intelligence.
 
kokonut said:
Righto. Me think somebody got a little defensive acting as a representative ("we") saying there was no need for me to post that link of what a trillion dollars look like.
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For someone who claims to be so intelligent, I need to correct you. The word "think" should be plural -- not singular. :cool2:

To be more accurate, that sentence should read "I think..." :)
 
jillio said:
Yeah, visually concrete examples are important...especially when one does not have any fluid intelligence.
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so you're telling me there's only one explanation to the graph? Other voices cannot be heard except yours? That's the implication I'm feeling in here. :hmm:
 
kokonut said:
Righto. Me think somebody got a little defensive acting as a representative ("we") saying there was no need for me to post that link of what a trillion dollars look like. Ever noticed how tiny that man is in that picture next to a trillion dollars worth of stacked $100 bills on crates? Truly impressive. It's also called, "teaching." Any teacher knows that by using visual examples to students help give them a better idea or concept of what's being explained. :cool2:
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Misinterpretation, Einstein. I never said it wasn't necessary to post a visual representation. I said you were insulting and incorrect in assuming that no one could conceptualize a trillion without it. Just because you need a concrete example doesn't mean everyone does. Just because you find it difficult to grasp the abstract doesn't mean everyone has the same difficulty. To imply that the majority of posters here are not capable of understanding any concept at the same level you are is insulting and self serving.
 
Jiro said:
so you're telling me there's only one explanation to the graph? Other voices cannot be heard except yours? That's the implication I'm feeling in here. :hmm:
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No, that is not what I am saying at all. I am saying it is wrong of Kokonut to assume, and you as well, for that matter, that the two of you are the only ones on this forum that has the ability to conceptualize a trillion. And that it is necessary to have a visual example to do so. Or that a cartoon needs such an in depth analysis that no one except him is capable of understanding.
 
jillio said:
Misinterpretation, Einstein. I never said it wasn't necessary to post a visual representation. I said you were insulting and incorrect in assuming that no one could conceptualize a trillion without it. Just because you need a concrete example doesn't mean everyone does. Just because you find it difficult to grasp the abstract doesn't mean everyone has the same difficulty. To imply that the majority of posters here are not capable of understanding any concept at the same level you are is insulting and self serving.
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jillio said:
No, that is not what I am saying at all. I am saying it is wrong of Kokonut to assume, and you as well, for that matter, that the two of you are the only ones on this forum that has the ability to conceptualize a trillion. And that it is necessary to have a visual example to do so.
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but people don't.

A Billion, A Trillion, Whatever
Cost of the Bush era: $11.5 trillion

there you go.
 
jillio said:
How about using that superior intelligence and finding it?
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how about you tone down your sarcasm? It's getting tiresome. Sarcasm can be funny at first but once it's dragged on..... it loses the edge.
 
*waving peace flag*

Better stop before this thread gets locked and people banned.

Just a heads up! :D
 
jillio said:
Yeah, visually concrete examples are important...especially when one does not have any fluid intelligence.
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It has nothing to do with "fluid intelligence" but just that people view things different and sometimes require visual methods to grasp concepts or ideas. Teachers should know that anyways. This is especially true when it comes to science like a video on numbers to scale showing it going out into space from thousand of miles to light years and then zoom back to earth into miles, feet, inches, microscale and into nana scale showing atoms and then to sub particle scale.

Here's a similar video going from very, very small scale to light years.
[ame=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RPumskk1dGk&feature=PlayList&p=14EB2C5413936331&index=61]YouTube - From Quarks to Outer Space[/ame]

Visual examples are the cornerstone in education.
 
kokonut said:
It has nothing to do with "fluid intelligence" but just that people view things different and sometimes require visual methods to grasp concepts or ideas. Teachers should know that anyways. This is especially true when it comes to science like a video on numbers to scale showing it going out into space from thousand of miles to light years and then zoom back to earth into miles, feet, inches, microscale and into nana scale showing atoms and then to sub particle scale.

Here's a similar video going from very, very small scale to light years.
YouTube - From Quarks to Outer Space

Visual examples are the cornerstone in education.
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It has everything to do with fluid intelligence. The fact that you don't grasp that explains very well the belief that you don't have it.

Now, how about them danged illegals? What should we do? Shoot 'em all? Or just laugh at the cartoon in the OP?
 
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