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Would You Rather Be Gifted in Math or Prose?
If you could be gifted, which would you choose?
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i am gifted.......
but i picked numbers.....as math is the basis for all things.....from astrophysics to bra sizes.......
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Sometimes neither. I know a lot of people who are very smart (quite a few who are gifted). Most of them are very akward to be around and a lot of them get bad grades. I am the same way. I scored the highest in the class in the mathematical aptitude test in the honors math class at a very acedemic high school but I had one of the worst grades in the class.
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12-14-2010, 08:34 PM
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Words for me... (just read some of my posts
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12-14-2010, 08:36 PM
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I wish I were a more proficient mathlete, key to the universe, math is.
You don't get to pick though, the high score for me on the SAT was for verbal.
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12-14-2010, 08:42 PM
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Good words can get you out of a bad math situation. Much less so in the other direction.
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12-14-2010, 08:47 PM
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I didn't vote. I'm pretty darn sharp in math. I can get my point across, but I'm certainly no poet or wordsmith.
I wanted to vote both. I'd like to be a renaissance man. I'm more gifted on the math/science side of things, but I really love creative stuff (unfortunately, not very good at any of it).
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12-14-2010, 08:50 PM
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Talking numbers don't get you laid.
I think you know my vote.
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12-14-2010, 08:51 PM
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At my age math is not gonna be very useful day to day. I'd rather be able to write really well.
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12-14-2010, 08:59 PM
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Words are man's doings, and entirely subjective by culture and time.
Math is not.
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Maths can be taught...
Words??? Anyone can be taught the basics but real world usage... Not so sure. More of a gift than anything else. BTW: Interestingly Einstein always said he was bad at maths. 
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12-14-2010, 09:35 PM
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Math, I suppose....but then, prose didn't hurt some folks. Hemingway, et al. On the other hand, behind every successful writer are thousands who didn't make it.
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12-14-2010, 09:35 PM
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I can do math when I feel like it. I'm not the craftiest with words though. I agree with Gogar, you can talk yourself out of about anything if you are good enough.
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12-14-2010, 10:07 PM
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I'm Asian. I didn't have a choice in the matter.
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12-14-2010, 11:03 PM
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Numbers, I am not artsy.
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12-15-2010, 12:51 AM
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Einstein said, "Math is the language of God."
With math you always know how the story is going to turn out at the end.
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12-15-2010, 12:55 AM
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We spend most of our lives communicating with others.
Although the language of numbers can be beautiful, most people understand words. Les
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I see most people here assumed by "words" you mean the written word. If I had a choice I wish I were better at the spoken word. I can write, I am good enough at math to have gotten and engineering degree, but I would rather set fire to my 'nads than give a speech in public.
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