Category: Innumeracy
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“But it’s exponential!”
Peggy Noonan advertises her ignorance in this opening sentence: This coronavirus is new to our species—it is “novel.” It spreads more easily than the flu—“exponentially,” as we now say—and is estimated to be at least 10 times as lethal. Why is it "novel"? It is a form of flu, and it is not unique in…
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Stand Up for Innumeracy and Vote Democratic!
If Michael Bloomberg had given the 500 million dollars he threw away on a quixotic bid for the Dem nod to the American people, then each of us 327 million would have received one million, and 173 million would be left over to be given as reparations to the 'victims' of "Stop and Frisk." Right?…
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Innumeracy
Innumeracy is the mathematical counterpart of illiteracy. Here is an example that caught my eye this morning: Curiously, there is little attempt by the GHSA to grapple with the very obvious and long-term problem—the conflict that occurs when one attempts to combine pedestrian accessibility with roads that support highway speeds. Even with smartphones locked away…