Comments by "SmallSpoonBrigade" (@SmallSpoonBrigade) on "" video.

@litigioussociety4249 Yep, if you're using a Geneva Drive mechanism for all the hands, you'd get that effect where the hands stay in place until they're ready to move, and then they move incredibly quickly. It's kind of nice because it makes it very clear what time the hour hand is pointing to, but people didn't get used to that until digital clocks became a thing.
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@st.m.3979 Does it even really matter? It's not like a teacher is going to spend the time to make sure that the hour hand is the correct proportion of the way towards the next hour when doing an exercise like this and anybody that sees a clock is going to figure the rest of it out pretty quickly.
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Yes, that and the fact that you can round those numbers and present them as a fraction. For most applications 1/12 increments is fine and if you need more than that, you'd probably be using digital anyways. My main beef with digital is that you do have to read it, if I need to track time without much thought, I've got one of those countdown timers where the red circle gradually gets a larger and larger white sector until the red is gone. I can look at it and know even faster than typical clocks.
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@carsonmmiller It's incredibly common for people to not know how to read notes, some instruments, like guitar and bass, it's almost a given, but you lose out on a lot in terms of being able to play music that you haven't heard or to understand the alternate fingers that exist to give the same note.
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Yes, but one that's an essential skill in those fields and two having graphs for everything takes up a bunch of space and if you're dealing with an especially large number of related values may not even be possible. Honestly, I get the reasoning behind it, but this is how we get idiocracy. People failing to learn how to deal with such things, and in some cases refusing to do any work if it isn't presented in their preferred manner.
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Why would you visualize it? In this case, they're both the same hour number, so it's going to be 12pm and in most cases medications aren't that picky about timing. If it is that picky, then you'd probably just set a timer to tell you when to take the middle dose.
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@DrakonIL Except no, that wouldn't happen unless you're first encountering a clock in a location with no natural light or context to tell you that it's not 9. You learn to use a clock typically with other clocks in your environment somewhere. Learning to use a clock where there are none in the area is just going to end badly reguardless of how the skill is taught.
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@st.m.3979 By that standard nobody would ever be taught anything significant as what gets taught is almost never correct. Most of the stuff that laypeople are taught is simply good enough. As efficient as it would be, the reality is that there's a bunch of pipework that needs to be laid before people can properly understand the intricacies of complicated skills. The only real alternative is to slavishly copy what an expert does and hope that the apprentice figures the rest out on their own. Which can work, the Chinese did well with it for centuries, but it has massive limitations in terms of creativity.
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