”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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. Last week Diane Abbott showed on live radio that she could not do simple division, did not understand place ...