Pay attention to your kids’ education folks
I once had a mortgage advisor point at a more than sign and go “is that more or less? I never can remember”
Like, why did you get into this job? I ended up not taking his advice.
It doesn’t take a ton of mental capacity, but even though I have a good education in math, I still find myself doing the heuristics of assuming that larger digits means larger number. Using fractions for comparing sizes can flip these heuristics. And I think a lot of people are like me, and also that they won’t spend a lot of time reading each item on the menu.
Where I’m from, burger sizes are just given in amount of grams, which makes it a lot easier to compare.
The American education system (for my old millennial ass)
“Memorize this. No I will not explain how it works or why. Memorize it take the test and leave me alone.”
Me who is physically incapable of memorizing seemingly arbitrary stuff and needs to understand for it to stick: I guess fuck me then huh? 1/4 pounder it is!