How The War Against Innumeracy Was Won

In the Year 2054: Innumeracy Defeated by Gerd Gigerenzer
It is the year 2054. Our great-granddaughters and great-grandsons are celebrating a triple anniversary:the 400th anniversary of the mathematical theory of probability, the 200th of George Boole’s The Laws of Thought, and the 100th of the publication of Leonard Savage’s Foundations of Statistics. This year’s celebration happens to coincide with the final victory over an intellectual disability that has plagued humankind for centuries: innumeracy, or the inability to think with numbers, specifi cally numbers that represent uncertainties and risks. …
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