What are the odds that the most number-numbed among us will enjoy the audio version of John Allen Paulos` ”Innumeracy”? Better than even. This witty-and handy-little book, subtitled ”Mathematical ...

This is a preview. Log in through your library . Abstract Abbebe Kifleyesus, L'"innumeracy" des négociantes jeberti, et son impact sur les activités commerciales en Éythrée. — Cet article étudie, de ...

Innumeracy: Mathematical Illiteracy and Its Consequences, by John Allen Paulos (Vintage, $8.95). Poor John Allen Paulos, a mathematics professor at Temple University, who must endure a weatherman`s ...

Immigration reform is a hot issue these days, both in the U.S. and in Europe. In the U.S., the debate about immigration reform has recently heated up, after the passage of a new Arizona law that would ...

Welcome to The Topline, a weekly roundup of the big numbers driving the Minnesota news cycle, as well as the smaller ones that you might have missed. This week: innumeracy; Stearns County home prices; ...

The COVID-19 pandemic is evolving, and authorities agree that plans to loosen restrictions must be “data-driven.” But data are at the mercy of twin hazards — innumeracy and hyperbole — that infect the ...

Egan J Chernoff receives (and has received) funding from Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council. University of Saskatchewan provides funding as a founding partner of The Conversation CA.

In the real world characterized by inherently analog signals, I’ve always been a follower of the principle that “I’d rather be roughly right than precisely wrong.” When you are dealing with a sensor ...

The extremity of atrocities and tragedy is not a representative reflection of the state of the world. They are statistical outliers ...