Did they try translating math problems into units of kegs and 40s?
Most succinct headline of the year: “College students lack skills” Nearing a diploma, most college students cannot handle many complex but common tasks, from understanding credit card offers to comparing the cost per ounce of food. Those are the sobering findings of a study of literacy on college campuses, the first to target the skills of students as they approach the start of their careers. More than 50% of students at four-year schools and more than 75% at two-year colleges lacked the skills to perform complex literacy tasks. Devoted Reader (and tireless devil’s advocate) Brian H. sent this to me with a defence of those hapless college kids – “Have you tried reading a credit card offer?!?!?” I agree, and absolve college students of any shame from failing to understand an offer in which the proposed provider has, as many credit card companies do, buried all the important information in lilliputian font and impenetrable legalese/finanese. Warren Buffett himself couldn’t figure out wha
