People are generally worse at doing arithmetic in their heads after accepting calculators.
Where did you get this idea from? Your teachers? Parents? It’s absolutely false. Sure lazy people are generally bad at skills they don’t both practicing themselves, like arithmetic and critical thinking. Those of us that actually use arithmetic and calculators regularly, from retail cashiers to engineers, know that it’s easy to not recognize a wrong answer without ingrained basic arithmetic skills. So much so that one could argue that you should only be using a calculator if you can already roughly intuit the answer a d use the calculator to make precise answers more quickly.
Where did you get this idea from? Your teachers? Parents? It’s absolutely false. Sure lazy people are generally bad at skills they don’t both practicing themselves, like arithmetic and critical thinking. Those of us that actually use arithmetic and calculators regularly, from retail cashiers to engineers, know that it’s easy to not recognize a wrong answer without ingrained basic arithmetic skills. So much so that one could argue that you should only be using a calculator if you can already roughly intuit the answer a d use the calculator to make precise answers more quickly.