Illusory Superiority on P&B

[Fullerene]

1 hour ago, welshbairn said:

They don't even know Albion Rovers.

I find that hard to believe.

Spoiler

It's the name of the pub in Coronation Street.

 

[coprolite]

1 hour ago, Fullerene said:

Not really.  I have seen these sort of questions on Pointless - States that have a coastline, States that don't have a coastline, West of the Mississippi, East of the Mississippi, that border Canada, border Mexico, end with a vowel, don't end with a vowel.  Always someone that knows one of them.

I feel sorry for the guy who appeared on Pointless and said his special subject was Middlesbrough Football Club.  He reached the final and was asked to name a former captain of the Scotland team.  He failed.  He was then asked if he knew of a player called Stephen McManus.  He replied "My Dad is going to kill me."

 

Maybe i underestimate the public then. My own knowledge of us geography isn't great so i may be projecting that. 

 

[Shandon Par]

3 hours ago, 101 said:

That's incredible.

Anyone ever done an IQ test

Worryingly I'm usually in the 130s. Genuinely fear for the other 98% of the population.

[Fullerene]

6 minutes ago, coprolite said:

Maybe i underestimate the public then. My own knowledge of us geography isn't great so i may be projecting that. 

 

I suspect you can name some of the states.  Somebody else might know some others (but maybe not all the ones that you know). 

Within a group of 100 people I suspect each state is known by at least one person even if nobody in the group knows all of them.

[Mark Connolly]

9 minutes ago, Fullerene said:

I suspect you can name some of the states.  Somebody else might know some others (but maybe not all the ones that you know). 

Within a group of 100 people I suspect each state is known by at least one person even if nobody in the group knows all of them.

 

[Fullerene]

19 minutes ago, coprolite said:

Maybe i underestimate the public then. My own knowledge of us geography isn't great so i may be projecting that.

Some people don't even know how many states there are.  Fortunately, the 50th and last state has a TV show named after it

Good thing they changed the name of the islands.

 

[coprolite]

52 minutes ago, Fullerene said:

I suspect you can name some of the states.  Somebody else might know some others (but maybe not all the ones that you know). 

Within a group of 100 people I suspect each state is known by at least one person even if nobody in the group knows all of them.

I reckon i'd get over 45 states but maybe 3 capitals. Depends how many wrong guesses you get because i'm never quite sure which compass points go with which states. 

I get your point though, wisdom of the crowd. It might only take someone knowing if North Carolina is a thing for us to have it all sewn up. 

 

[Theroadlesstravelled]

On 14/07/2021 at 09:23, Marshmallo said:

Can't vote as I consider myself Bang Average in terms of intelligence. I'm Above Average in humour. Below Average in getting ass.

And well below average in self evaluation.

Edited July 17, 2021 by Theroadlesstravelled

[djchapsticks]

I work in finance and it genuinely terrifies me how many people working in the field don't understand basics of finance despite being employed in it. Particularly percentages.

I had to correct someone the other day who said that there was a 35% risk of non-payment by customer A and a 15% risk by customer B and that this meant there was a total of a 50% non-payment risk and my head near enough fucking exploded. Particularly as the person in question is a pay band above me.

And another who thought that because VAT is charged at 20% you could just deduct 20% of the net value to remove the VAT and couldn't understand why removing 20% of the net value doesn't just cancel out adding 20% to gross.

Before Covid, I also had someone in our customer care team (who are responsible for crediting customer accounts when they are invoiced incorrectly) come up to me in the office and ask if a credit note getting raised to the customer meant that it was a negative value as it was us deducting. She then proceeded to credit a quantity of -1 item at a negative value and when I explained to her that it would just result in another positive invoice going to the customer as she'd actually created a double negative, I actually saw the hamster behind her eyes die.

Edited July 17, 2021 by djchapsticks

[Thistle_do_nicely]

13 minutes ago, djchapsticks said:

I work in finance and it genuinely terrifies me how many people working in the field don't understand basics of finance despite being employed in it. Particularly percentages.

I had to correct someone the other day who said that there was a 35% risk of non-payment by customer A and a 15% risk by customer B and that this meant there was a total of a 50% non-payment risk and my head near enough fucking exploded. Particularly as the person in question is a pay band above me.

And another who thought that because VAT is charged at 20% you could just deduct 20% of the net value to remove the VAT and couldn't understand why removing 20% of the net value doesn't just cancel out adding 20% to gross.

Before Covid, I also had someone in our customer care team (who are responsible for crediting customer accounts when they are invoiced incorrectly) come up to me in the office and ask if a credit note getting raised to the customer meant that it was a negative value as it was us deducting. She then proceeded to credit a quantity of -1 item at a negative value and when I explained to her that it would just result in another positive invoice going to the customer as she'd actually created a double negative, I actually saw the hamster behind her eyes die.

I feel like you could make a killing in your office using this

 

(tbh it still got me a bit just from the way its worded until I tried thinking about it using double entry bookkeeping - person A, person B and the box all as separate entities)

Edited July 17, 2021 by Thistle_do_nicely

[DeeTillEhDeh]

I work in finance and it genuinely terrifies me how many people working in the field don't understand basics of finance despite being employed in it. Particularly percentages.
I had to correct someone the other day who said that there was a 35% risk of non-payment by customer A and a 15% risk by customer B and that this meant there was a total of a 50% non-payment risk and my head near enough fucking exploded. Particularly as the person in question is a pay band above me.
And another who thought that because VAT is charged at 20% you could just deduct 20% of the net value to remove the VAT and couldn't understand why removing 20% of the net value doesn't just cancel out adding 20% to gross.
Before Covid, I also had someone in our customer care team (who are responsible for crediting customer accounts when they are invoiced incorrectly) come up to me in the office and ask if a credit note getting raised to the customer meant that it was a negative value as it was us deducting. She then proceeded to credit a quantity of -1 item at a negative value and when I explained to her that it would just result in another positive invoice going to the customer as she'd actually created a double negative, I actually saw the hamster behind her eyes die.

It's not just Finance where people get promoted who can't do the job.

It seems in a lot of businesses It's the bullshitters and fast-trackers who get promoted and then can't do the job.

[djchapsticks]

6 minutes ago, DeeTillEhDeh said:

It's not just Finance where people get promoted who can't do the job.

It seems in a lot of businesses It's the bullshitters and fast-trackers who get promoted and then can't do the job.

Oh definitely but it's not so much the promotion thing I'm having a go at (the person in question just so happened to be at a higher level) but the lack of basic understanding of the ABCs of their job is utterly soul-destroying. 

[tamthebam]

6 hours ago, coprolite said:

I reckon i'd get over 45 states but maybe 3 capitals. Depends how many wrong guesses you get because i'm never quite sure which compass points go with which states. 

I get your point though, wisdom of the crowd. It might only take someone knowing if North Carolina is a thing for us to have it all sewn up. 

 

I'll be deep in the cold, cold ground before I recognise Missourah

[DeeTillEhDeh]

Oh definitely but it's not so much the promotion thing I'm having a go at (the person in question just so happened to be at a higher level) but the lack of basic understanding of the ABCs of their job is utterly soul-destroying. 

I'm reminded of Jen in the IT crowd when she is named the Employee of the Month and she has to make a speech.

Moss and Roy play a prank on her to expose her ignorance about the Internet but it backfires as the audience are as ignorant as she is.

[welshbairn]

Why the hell isn't Wichita a state, that's what I want to know. Fine name, good people probably.

[Todd_is_God]

9 hours ago, Fullerene said:

I suspect you can name some of the states.  Somebody else might know some others (but maybe not all the ones that you know). 

Within a group of 100 people I suspect each state is known by at least one person even if nobody in the group knows all of them.

Looking through the list there, I reckon there are a few that there would be a pretty good chance no-one would say.

It's obviously a challenge for you to do so when you have a lot of knowledge on this particular subject, but I'd be stunned if at least one of the following was not a pointless answer:

Olympia, WA

Pierre, SD

Frankfort, KY

Trenton, NJ

Montpelier, VT

[djchapsticks]

The US state capital cities are a piece of piss to those of a certain vintage to remember this song.

 

 

[Mark Connolly]

Yakko's version of the world is a bit out of date though

 

[Jacksgranda]

5 hours ago, Todd_is_God said:

Looking through the list there, I reckon there are a few that there would be a pretty good chance no-one would say.

It's obviously a challenge for you to do so when you have a lot of knowledge on this particular subject, but I'd be stunned if at least one of the following was not a pointless answer:

Olympia, WA

Pierre, SD

Frankfort, KY

Trenton, NJ

Montpelier, VT

I know that one

[strichener]

On 16/07/2021 at 21:45, Funky Nosejob said:

That’s the kind of argument that could win you friends on the COVID thread.

Is it an argument?  I'd rather see it as a promise.