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100			_aPaulos, John Allen
245			_aInnumeracy : mathematical illiteracy and its consequences
260			_aNew York : _bHill and Wang, _c2001
300			_axvi, 180 p. ; _c21 cm.
365			_aUSD _b15.00 _d00
520			_aWhy do even well-educated people understand so little about mathematics? And what are the costs of our innumeracy? John Allen Paulos, in his celebrated bestseller first published in 1988, argues that our inability to deal rationally with very large numbers and the probabilities associated with them results in misinformed governmental policies, confused personal decisions, and an increased susceptibility to pseudoscience of all kinds. Innumeracy lets us know what we're missing, and how we can do something about it." "Sprinkling his discussion of numbers and probabilities with quirky stories and anecdotes, Paulos ranges freely over many aspects of modern life, from contested elections to sports statistics, from stock scams and newspaper psychics to diet and medical claims, sex discrimination, insurance, lotteries, and drug testing. Readers of Innumeracy will be rewarded with scores of astonishing facts, a fistful of powerful ideas, and, most important, a clearer, more quantitative way of looking at their world
650			_aMathematics
650			_aScience
650			_aPopular works
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