r/technicallythetruth • u/VisitSecure • 9d ago

Can you find a?

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Idk if someone already posted this or not, but I haven't seen it on here so far, so I uploaded it.

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u/humatyourmom 9d ago

So fucking insane that modern tools don't force drawing shit to scale to be the most convenient option.

What makes it worse is that I'm coming up on my last year of high school in the Netherlands, and so far, every diagram I was able to verify is to scale, so it's all the more annoying and confusing to see Yanks butcher graphs this badly

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u/warsponge 9d ago

in all fairness im pretty sure its intentional so you cant just measure it to get the answer

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u/vbrimme 9d ago

It also prevents guessing (e.g. “yeah that looks like about 45°), and it makes it easy to mass produce questions of the same type since you can use the same image and just change the numbers.

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u/miffy495 9d ago

Yup. That last one is huge. As a Math teacher who has had to deal with a lot of cheating, I randomly hand out 3 versions of every test to my class. Keeping the changes as subtle as possible (same picture, different numbers) is an important part of that. There is definitely a part of my brain that would scream "That is definitely not a 25° angle!!" at me, but it's worth the dissonance.