• PrettyFlyForAFatGuy@feddit.uk
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    4 hours ago

    Can you count backwards by 7s

    counting backwards in multiples of 7? i’d struggle with that and i consider myself at least average

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      40 minutes ago

      If this were the entire question, I’d be confused. Another comment suggested starting from 0 and going into negatives, but my initial response would be “starting from what?” expecting to start at 100 or 77 or something.

      However, an elementary school teacher told me that negative numbers don’t exist, so that might be related …

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      4 hours ago

      It’s probably like field sobriety tests, where how you struggle is relevant. If you miss one in a sequence, that says something different from repeatedly going up instead of down or counting backwards on your hands first.