Quite the methodology of sellers, but I suppose that is the nature of the business, like any other. For example, the other day, in a used car lot, there was an '80s mustang that had enormous, extremely shiny, chrome mag wheels out in front and center.
Yes, I have seen cashiers unable to go beyond the display of their machine and I have had to explain how much change that I needed to be given when paying in cash. More than once has this occurred.
I have heard that there are considerations to not have any sort of exams to gauge education levels for graduation. A sad state of affairs.
I have a strong mathematics background. In VA, every HS student participated in a math\trig\calc(ulus) exam. I scored in the top 20 and as such, the 20 spent the summer at Langley Reaserch Center Nasa, studyng with various departments, by pair, such as astrophysics, aerodynamics, etc. I worked with 2 meteorologists, studying computer aided aviation design. We saw and toured the initial design works of the shuttle (1975).