It’s not often I agree with George Rebane’s analysis of world events, but during his fairly innumerate rant about the economics of battling climate change, he did strike a ...
”Innumeracy: Mathematical Illiteracy and Its Consequences,” by John Allen Paulos, Hill and Wang, 135 pages, $16.95 In an age of trillion-dollar federal budgets and multibillion-dollar deficits, most ...
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; ...
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 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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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