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 ...

”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; ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...