Be Excellent To Each Other

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/education-23695270

Brilliant, isn't it? Pass rates go up, everyone jumps on the bandwagon of "Exams are getting easier!"

Pass rates go down, nobody (well, except you) asks if the exams are getting harder.

Clearly this means teachers are getting worse. The feckless, lazy, public sector cunts. Sack them all and see how they like The Real World.

This generation going through A levels is the very start of the kids from our generation.
Look at us, how could they be anything but imbecilic? And it'll only get worse, mark my words...

Given that new advances are made in science and all sorts of other fields on a regular basis, it seems odd that people would think we're always getting progressively stupider as a species.

It's just opinion being presented as news, like all "news" these days.

I'm not talking collectively, i'm talking specifically. Look at us, we can't even win a poxy music quiz ffs.

Yes we can, and have!

We've never won it when I was there!


Oh...

What generation are the people who are beating you?

So you won it a while back, but now you can't win it. That's a good example of homo sapiens getting stupider, I'd say.

New Power.

So are these people still part of Gen Y or are they Gen Z now? Can't wait for Gen AA!

So hivemind, maths popquiz time, how far in the future will it be when this glorious planet of ours reaches Generation XXX?

1,060 years?

Frankly, I think the problem is more that children are being taught to an exam more than anything.

Although it works out well enough for me since I'm good at them, probably one of the best things about my school from an educational standpoint (more than it being a zoo) was that the exam syllabus was seen as only a fraction of what was needed to standpoint, relying more on trusting the teacher to know what was going on than an exam board.

Yup thats pretty much what I got

I blame sexting, hair removal and rioting.

Yes, because we only compete against non-humans.

Our winning ratio has reduced in direct correlation to - A) The quiz being advertised, and more widely popular, B) The proportion of attractive women participating generally significantly decreasing, C) Curiosity procreating and D) Pre-quiz drinks taking on more importance.

F) lack of malia

26 for the double digits, assumes, that it goes from AA to BB to CC and not AB, AC etc...

If you do it properly (like excel)

Then from at the start of Gen A it would be (24*26*26) + (24*26) + (24) generations, so if now we're at the end of Gen Y, then it's (24*26*26) + (24*26) - (1) = 16847 generations = 353787 years.

So the year 355,799

Malc

No Malc. Not even close.

Why not?

XXX =
X00 + X0 + X

X00 means the second and 3rd digits have all been used 26 times, and the first digit has been used 24 times (hence 24*26*26)

X0 means the 3rd digit has been used 26 times, and the first digit 24 times (hence 24*26)

X means the 3rd digit has been used 24 times.

(cf 888

888 = 800 + 80 + 8 = 8*10*10 + 8*10 + 8

Malc

Because you don't use numbers at all. It goes Y-Z (2), AA-ZZ (26) and then AAA-XXX (24).

Each generation is roughly 20 years, so that's 20*52 = 1040.

2013+1040 = 3053.

I'm not using numbers either, I'm just not sticking to AA BB CC DD EE FF GG HH II JJ KK LL MM NN OO PP etc

I'm going AA AB AC AD AE AF AG AH AI AJ AK AL AM AN AO AP... ...AX AY AZ BA BB BC BD... ...ZX ZY ZZ AAA AAB AAC etc

Malc

Oh right, you're doing it differently then.

A levels appear to be getting duller, certainly.

What about AA levels?

They're low in my house since I lost my recharger.

B+

I'm surprised how long that took.