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 ...
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 ...
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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 ...
At hearings of the Senate Homeland and Governmental Affairs Committee earlier this month, former congresswoman Jane Harman (D-CA), now head of the Wilson Center in Washington, made a gallant stab at ...
The 2018 rankings by the Programme for International Student Assessment, or PTSA, places the U.S. 38th out of the 79 countries that participated in the math test, which is given to 15-year-olds. The U ...
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 ...
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