Half of young adults struggle to tell
the time on a clockface with hands
Daily Mail (UK),
by
Sami Quadri
Original Article
Posted By: Ribicon,
12/11/2019 12:31:10 AM
It comes as a surprise even in the digital age–but just half of 18 to 24-year-olds have no problem reading a traditional watch. Staggeringly, more than a fifth of the age group–known as Generation Z–have a problem telling the time on an analogue watch. And the slightly older generation fare little better, as one in five 25 to 34-year-olds admit they also find it difficult to tell the time on a watch with hands. Meanwhile, just 4 per cent of those beyond the age of 55 have lost the ability to read a watch with big and little
Reply 1 - Posted by:
Trigger2 12/11/2019 1:30:47 AM (No. 258536)
Did GB adopt Barry's CommieCore too? Do people in school and those up to 35 have to carry a ream of paper around to figure out a clock with hands? Must be.
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Reply 2 - Posted by:
Newtsche 12/11/2019 1:39:05 AM (No. 258540)
Too many can't find their butts with hands.
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Reply 3 - Posted by:
SALady 12/11/2019 1:43:48 AM (No. 258544)
They can't tell time or read cursive writing, but they know the world will end in 10 years and know it is all because of evil man-made global warming!!!! Just add Gretta...
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Reply 4 - Posted by:
DVC 12/11/2019 1:55:30 AM (No. 258555)
How sad for them to be so lame and ill-educated.
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Reply 5 - Posted by:
chumley 12/11/2019 2:26:25 AM (No. 258571)
My generation couldn't use a spinning wheel to make yarn, or a sextant to navigate the high seas. If we had to plant a crop with a horse we would have starved. Make our own paint or gunpowder? Forget it.
Like so much we knew as kids, the hands clock is nearly obsolete now. I taught it to my grandkids as a secret code so it was fun for them, but with nearly all clocks digital it doesn't much matter.
They can program computers and work smart phones. My 1980's VCR is still blinking the wrong time. Different times, different skills needed.
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I visited friends in rural VA about 15 years ago. They were excited to finally get a WalMart. Because life only consisted of work and church, this person had hobbies most have forgotten. She could make soap, sew, paint, had two spinning wheels, and bought an alpaca to get the wool. She taught herself how to make floral arrangements from a book.
Maybe 'survivalist' have the right idea. Personally, I get texting burnout.
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Reply 7 - Posted by:
Maggie2u 12/11/2019 3:17:43 AM (No. 258586)
I don't laugh at these stories or videos anymore after today. I was trying to open a bottle of something called Ginger Brew (non-alcoholic) from Trader Joe's. It had some screwy top you had to push a metal bar up and then pop the top to get to the drink. My husband had to open it for me because I didn't know how. When I went for seconds, I was able to open it but sat there looking at it and fiddling with the top trying to get it off before I realized it was open. My husband, sitting across from me just said, 'the directions are on the bottom.' I did give him a rude sign I've learned in my travels.
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Reply 8 - Posted by:
watashiyo 12/11/2019 3:23:45 AM (No. 258589)
Dumbing Down Education under the public school system has its negatives. However, they are becoming very skilled in the area of public demonstrations, government entitlements, and global warming.
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Reply 9 - Posted by:
Highlander 12/11/2019 5:39:17 AM (No. 258609)
What the OP wrote about standard shift transmission: I don’t remember exactly when and where, but there were two potential car-jackers stopped cold because neither could drive a stick shift!
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Reply 10 - Posted by:
WhamDBambam 12/11/2019 7:14:30 AM (No. 258670)
Funny, Biden seems to have the same problem.
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Reply 11 - Posted by:
edgar 12/11/2019 7:35:45 AM (No. 258688)
My wife is a high school art teacher and confirms this. She holds 15 minute sessions on how to read a clock to provide her students with a valuable life skill. Why don't they do this in elementary school or better yet, at home? C'mon man!
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Reply 12 - Posted by:
Saryden 12/11/2019 7:39:47 AM (No. 258692)
To further stump one of them, ask him to make change from a purchase. Hilarious!
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Reply 13 - Posted by:
F15 Gork 12/11/2019 8:08:22 AM (No. 258710)
I suspect that a rotary dial phone would probably make their heads explode....
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Reply 14 - Posted by:
ROLFNader 12/11/2019 8:20:09 AM (No. 258722)
I taught my grandkids how to read an analog clock because I thought it was important -as it automatically ( subconsciously ) relates the current time with the day/night in its entirety. So, you get the bigger picture rather than just a number. Just saw a letter to Santa in which one asked for a 'real' watch.
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Reply 15 - Posted by:
NorthernDog 12/11/2019 8:34:58 AM (No. 258738)
I guess the use of roman numerals will die out too.
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Reply 16 - Posted by:
ARKfamily 12/11/2019 8:40:13 AM (No. 258744)
The gap occurs because parents think school systems are teaching life skills and parents don't teach them at home so children are not being taught important processes or skills at all. I remember my daughter coming home and insisting that she didn't have to learn cursive because the schools stopped teaching it. Sometimes it becomes a struggle between what is or isn't being taught at school and what a parent wants to teach at home.
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Reply 17 - Posted by:
JimJr 12/11/2019 9:08:13 AM (No. 258782)
#13, This one's for you:
https://www.totalprosports.com/2019/09/21/tennessee-qb-fails-to-answer-a-phone-the-correct-way-on-the-sidelines-video/
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Reply 18 - Posted by:
chance_232 12/11/2019 9:20:31 AM (No. 258793)
I expect that in a generation or two, kids wont know how to turn water valves, flush a toilet or get a paper towel that isnt automatically dispensed.
Whats funny..... is that Im old enough tgat when Im calculating time, I mentally envision a clock face.
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Reply 19 - Posted by:
DVC 12/11/2019 11:44:39 AM (No. 259021)
I have carefully cultivated many "useless" skills in my life, both as educational, and against some (so far, not happened!, Yeay!) time when "the system" may not be available.
Simple things like driving a manual transmission (my daily driver is a manual Accord, getting difficult to find, sadly), or repairing things, or even making things using welding and machining, seem to be slipping into the
"ancient and useless skills" category for many folks. Kinda sad to see all those helpless "systems people" out there who have no skills beyond a phone to call for help.
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Reply 20 - Posted by:
anniebc 12/11/2019 1:39:31 PM (No. 259141)
Thank you, poster 7. :)
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Reply 21 - Posted by:
udanja99 12/11/2019 3:19:22 PM (No. 259261)
If you think this is bad, watch them try to figure out a 24 hour clock. “What the heck is 15:32?”
I still drive a manual transmission car, have never owned an automatic and intend to keep driving a stick shift until my knees give out and I can no longer push in the clutch. Our millennial daughter was forced to learn to drive with a manual transmission as hubby and I both owned them.
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Reply 22 - Posted by:
Old Army Vet 12/11/2019 3:42:03 PM (No. 259279)
Only half, I'm afraid that it's much higher than that.
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