{"id":347110,"date":"2022-05-13T08:51:00","date_gmt":"2022-05-13T12:51:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/knightlife.paceacademy.org\/knightlynews\/?p=347110"},"modified":"2022-05-13T08:47:47","modified_gmt":"2022-05-13T12:47:47","slug":"the-great-debate-are-there-more-wheels-or-doors","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/knightlife.paceacademy.org\/knightlynews\/2022\/05\/13\/the-great-debate-are-there-more-wheels-or-doors\/","title":{"rendered":"The Great Debate, Are There More Wheels or Doors?"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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The results of the wheels vs doors poll. Photo: David Fu<\/figcaption><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n

Another debate over a seemingly pointless question has come up on the internet: are there more wheels or doors in the world? This question originated from Twitter, where Ryan Nixon tweeted a poll on Mar. 4, 2022, asking this exact question. Since then, it has been debated on both TikTok and Twitter, with both sides having many supporters.\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n

After seeing so many of these TikToks, I decided to create a poll at Pace. With 74 responses, 18 people responded doors, while the other 56 people responded wheels. It\u2019s clear, Pace is overwhelmingly team wheels with a ratio of a little over three wheels supporters for every door supporter, though this is much more of a drastic difference compared to the original Twitter poll. Those supporting wheels often stated very similar arguments to one another. \u201cLego manufacturers, factories, spinning chairs, scooters, bikes, semi-trucks. The answer is clear,\u201d said Senior John Catherman. \u201cThere are wheels on literally everything,” said Junior Kate Webb, “Imagine all the shopping carts and vehicles and gears to make things work.\u201d \u201cEven some doors have wheels. No wheels have doors,\u201d said Director of ICGL Trish Anderson. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Although these are solid reasons for believing there are more wheels, all of these arguments are flat-out wrong. \u201cThere are more doors because there are doors in every house, four on every car,\u201d said Sophomore Mac Barnette. \u201cThe argument that it is very common for furniture to have wheels, so there are more wheels, is false.\u201d Most pieces of furniture have more doors than wheels. Think of all the cabinet doors, desks, chests, etc. Also, in nature, doors are much more common than wheels. \u201cThere are coral with tons of doors,\u201d said Freshman Zoe Albert. Barnacles are extremely common on almost every port, coast, harbor, etc., and each barnacle has many doors. If we are counting barnacles as doors, then we also count clams, oysters and scallops to have doors. The final nail in the coffin is that \u201cthere is a door in every human cell,\u201d said Sophomore William Souza. Cells can open and close their cell membrane, and therefore it counts as a door. There are about 37.2 trillion cells in every human, and there are more than 7.9 billion humans living today. Therefore, there are innumerably more doors than wheels, and it isn\u2019t even a comparison.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

My answer could be considered a cop-out, however, and the definitive answer depends heavily on how you define doors and wheels. The Merriam-Webster Dictionary defines a door as \u201ca usually swinging or sliding barrier by which an entry is closed and opened.\u201d However, Oxford Languages defines a door as \u201ca hinged, sliding, or revolving barrier at the entrance to a building, room, or vehicle, or in the framework of a cupboard.\u201d In the first definition, cells, clams, oysters, etc. all count as doors because they have a closable entry. According to Oxford Languages, cells, clams, oysters, etc. cannot be considered doors because they don\u2019t lead to a room. In a similar way, wheels also have a subtle difference in definition. Merriam Webster defines a wheel as \u201ca circular frame of hard material that may be solid, partly solid or spoked and that is capable of turning on an axle.\u201d However, Oxford Languages defines a wheel as \u201ca circular object that revolves on an axle and is fixed below a vehicle or other object to enable it to move easily over the ground.” In Merriam Webster\u2019s definition, gears and pulleys are counted, however, they aren\u2019t in the second one because they aren\u2019t necessarily below another object nor does it have the goal of moving it more easily over the ground. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

In the end, the answer to this question doesn\u2019t matter at all, and there\u2019s no point in getting heated over a dumb internet argument. Just \u201cdon\u2019t be obtuse,\u201d said Junior Forest Pollard.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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