Innumeracy: Mathematical Illiteracy and Its Consequences - Paulos, John Allen

Clean, tight, unmarked; light wear to back cover; otherwise very minimal wear; appears unread; John Allen Paulos 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.
Very Good
Soft cover
Hill & Wang
2001
New York, NY