Who's Counting?: Uniting Numbers and Narratives with Stories from Pop Culture, Puzzles, Politics, and More

by John Allen Paulos

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Despite the ubiquity of countless apps, social media platforms, and so-called smart devices, and even considering the renewed and welcome focus on STEM subjects, societal innumeracy remains a critical driver of bad policy and bad thinking. Almost every major issue facing today’s world is made more difficult by false interpretations, incorrect assumptions, or a general misunderstanding of how numbers inform narratives and statistics shape stories.

New York Times-bestselling author and math popularizer John Allen Paulos has worked for decades to educate readers on not only the formal properties of the numbers, statistics, and probabilities behind news stories, but also...

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  • ISBN10 1633888126
  • ISBN13 9781633888128
  • Publish Date 15 October 2022
  • Publish Status Forthcoming
  • Publish Country US
  • Imprint Prometheus Books
  • Format Paperback (US Trade)
  • Pages 208
  • Language English