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- catalog abstract "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. 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 stats, from stock scams and newspaper psychics to diet and medical claims, sex discrimination, insurance, lotteries, and drug testing.".
- catalog contributor b12306227.
- catalog created "2001, c1988.".
- catalog date "2001".
- catalog date "2001, c1988.".
- catalog dateCopyrighted "2001, c1988.".
- catalog description "Examples and principles -- Probability and coincidence -- Pseudoscience -- Whence innumeracy? -- Statistics, trade-offs, and society.".
- catalog description "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. 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 stats, from stock scams and newspaper psychics to diet and medical claims, sex discrimination, insurance, lotteries, and drug testing.".
- catalog extent "xvi, 180 p. ;".
- catalog identifier "0809058405 (pbk.) :".
- catalog issued "2001".
- catalog issued "2001, c1988.".
- catalog language "eng".
- catalog publisher "New York : Hill and Wang,".
- catalog subject "510 21".
- catalog subject "Mathematics Popular works.".
- catalog subject "QA 93 P331i 1988".
- catalog subject "QA93 .P38 2001".
- catalog tableOfContents "Examples and principles -- Probability and coincidence -- Pseudoscience -- Whence innumeracy? -- Statistics, trade-offs, and society.".
- catalog title "Innumeracy : mathematical illiteracy and its consequences / John Allen Paulos.".
- catalog type "Popular works. fast".
- catalog type "text".