• RichardDegenne@lemmy.zip
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    14 hours ago

    I don’t really get it. Snopes says “mostly false”, but then confirms that the UK made a recommendation to replace analog clock for digital ones because “some students had trouble estimating the remaining time”.

    While OOP is a shortcut/overgeneralization, it doesn’t sound “mostly false” to me.

    • ILikeBoobies@lemmy.ca
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      14 hours ago

      It could be to deal with learning disabilities not the average kid which makes it mostly false.

      Also a recommendation doesn’t mean it happened.

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        6 hours ago

        My son has down syndrome, he did better with analog because you can see the motion and time left in an hour, whereas digital was abstract and he didn’t really grasp 47 was getting close to 60 etc.