r/SipsTea • u/Bigb5wm • 1d ago

Wait a damn minute! College scammed them

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u/JF-San 1d ago

Maybe the reasoning was this...?

They have two brains so they're two students learning.

They have one body so it's just one working

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u/Ok-Bug4328 1d ago

They presumably issued two degrees.  

But this seems so fucking stupid.  They could only take one class at a time. 

Surely a better school could have cut them a deal. 

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u/deeesenutz 1d ago

Presumably they also had to only fill out one exam or write one paper as cheating would be effectively impossible to prevent as well.

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u/vermiliondragon 1d ago

I read something about them recently and I'm pretty sure they did most if not all of it separately. Their brains are separate and they each control an arm so they can read and write separately but at the same time. They are able to coordinate to type.

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u/Not-Post-Malone 1d ago

Imagine being wired for right-handedness but only having a left hand. 

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u/ectogasmparade 1d ago

What do you think happens when people lose their dominate hand/arm?

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u/Slime_Fighter 21h ago

They die.

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u/Munnin41 1d ago

You can adapt. They used to do it to left handed people for centuries

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u/Go_Freaks_Go 1d ago

The brain would adapt to be better at working with the hand you do have, no? I believe it's able to do this more easily when young.

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u/mid-af-west 21h ago

I wonder how much they're able to read each other's thoughts. Being able to type sentences with their two separately controlled hands requires more than physical coordination. They seem like lovely people and I'm not trying to be rude but having watched the documentary it did kind of seem like one of them is more in charge and the other is following her lead (don't remember which is which).

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u/BlinksTale 9h ago

There's no biology to support mindreading - but they would have had a lifetime of seeing what the other one chose to do in every second of every situation basically.

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u/BlinksTale 9h ago

What's interesting is that with eyetracking VR headsets on the rise, they might well be able to do two jobs at the same time in the future. If both of them asked different questions and had different needs in attending the college, the college did technically train two students.