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 ...

In the Wall Street Journal, Carl Bialik mentions some of my research with Jack Citrin in a piece called “Americans Stumble on Math of Big Issues”: Political scientists John Sides of George Washington ...

The United States has produced inspiring, fresh ways to teach math, but has dropped the ball on implementing them. That’s a key message of a New York Times magazine piece that’s making the rounds. It ...

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 ...

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 ...

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Make your choice before you read further. What did you say? I guess “about 100.” I was wrong. The correct answer is “about 10” — the much-lauded Washington Post database said 13 unarmed black men were ...

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 ...