单词 | innumerate |
例句 | It’s like the innumerate high school principal who complains that most of his students score below his school’s median SAT score. Innumeracy: Mathematical Illiteracy and Its Consequences 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z Correlation and Causation Correlation and causation are two quite different words, and the innumerate are more prone to mistake them than most. Innumeracy: Mathematical Illiteracy and Its Consequences 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z —William Cowper Innumeracy, Freud, and Pseudoscience Innumeracy and pseudoscience are often associated, in part because of the ease with which mathematical certainty can be invoked to bludgeon the innumerate into a dumb acquiescence. Innumeracy: Mathematical Illiteracy and Its Consequences 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z These deficiencies of astrological theory are less visible to the innumerate, who are not likely to concern themselves with mechanisms, and who are seldom interested in comparing magnitudes. Innumeracy: Mathematical Illiteracy and Its Consequences 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z Furthermore, since perceptions tend to become realities, the natural tendency of the mass media to accentuate the anomalous, combined with an innumerate society’s taste for such extremes, could conceivably have quite dire consequences. Innumeracy: Mathematical Illiteracy and Its Consequences 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z Accommodating their innumerate help, the larger franchises now have cash registers which have pictures, on the keys, of the items ordered and automatically add on the appropriate tax. Innumeracy: Mathematical Illiteracy and Its Consequences 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z Especially for the innumerate, a few vivid predictions or coincidences often carry more weight than much more conclusive but less striking statistical evidence. Innumeracy: Mathematical Illiteracy and Its Consequences 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z Like the Richter scale, the proposed index would be logarithmic, so what follows is a little detour to review for the innumerate those dreaded monsters from high school algebra: logarithms. Innumeracy: Mathematical Illiteracy and Its Consequences 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z It constitutes a kind of psychological illusion to which innumerate people are particularly prone. Innumeracy: Mathematical Illiteracy and Its Consequences 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z But in recent months I’ve started to notice a contrarian phenomenon: surveys that innumerate all the things — Facebook, sleep, bacon – that people prefer over sex. What’s better than sex? 2012-07-03T15:30:00Z It initially sounded like an innumerate sequel to the Xbox 360 – but they probably mean "One" in the sense of unity. It ain't what you do, it's the way that you get a robot to do it 2013-05-25T23:06:07Z Perhaps his biggest draw was his thinly veiled disdain for the innumerate punditry that ruled the airwaves. Pushback 2016-03-02T05:00:00Z It is innumerate, blind to statistics and to the costs of saccharine indulgence. The case for compassion, not empathy 2017-01-26T05:00:00Z This one any innumerate person can understand: The injury rate in the NFL is 100 percent. Perspective | The breathtaking violence of an ordinary NFL hit 2023-01-12T05:00:00Z Answer Man is innumerate in all major numbering systems — Roman, Arabic, hexadecimal — and not so hot in Latin, either. Perspective | A real Roman mystery is carved into the stone at Arlington National Cemetery 2021-12-04T05:00:00Z To some degree, I think all of us as just a species, we’re a little bit innumerate as it relates to big numbers. Meta’s Andrew Bosworth on moving Facebook to the metaverse 2021-11-01T04:00:00Z Mr. Mishkin says that, to the contrary, he took Mr. Trump’s prospects so seriously that one of his daughters told him that he was beginning to sound like the innumerate Trump booster Bill Mitchell. Trump Wants to Discredit the Election. This Nerd Could Stop Him. 2020-09-27T04:00:00Z Numerate people often become innumerate when they’re faced with those numbers in that context. Why specialization can be a downside in our ever-changing world 2019-05-30T04:00:00Z In an innumerate world, this is what passes for fiscal justice. Millions, Billions, Trillions: How to Make Sense of Numbers in the News 2017-11-24T05:00:00Z But judging from the coverage of the deal so far, assuming that the news media will be gullible and innumerate seems like a good bet. Seduced and betrayed by Trump 2016-12-04T05:00:00Z But they climb onto their soapbox every day to tell us that this or that must be done about the very problem they’re innumerate about. Stuart Broad And Zoe Williams, Proof That The Left Really Don't Get Numbers 2015-01-30T05:00:00Z The cheerfully innumerate humanist enters into economic debate not just with trepidation but wearing a Kevlar vest and a combat helmet, plus a parachute for quick escape. Scotland and the Auld Alliance 2014-09-18T04:00:00Z Gove is right to be concerned about the 20% of our young people who leave school illiterate and innumerate but none of these measures address what is happening in primary schools. The guinea pigs in Gove's model madrasas are our children. We never agreed to this experiment 2014-06-11T04:00:00Z It’s certainly not true that today there are only 1 billion people around who are illiterate or innumerate. If Smartphones Mean That Everyone's Wired Into The Internet Doesn't Than Mean That Everyone Will Be Both Literate And Numerate? 2014-05-19T04:00:00Z True, this tactic will work only if news coverage is both gullible and innumerate. Seduced and betrayed by Trump 2016-12-04T05:00:00Z Alan Walker from Australia got in touch to say he heard a TV broadcast claiming that half of Tasmanians were illiterate and innumerate. Do 85 rich people have same wealth as half the world? 2014-03-19T00:40:07Z This results in actions that turn out to be parochial, narrow-minded and innumerate. How important is compassion in healthcare? 2013-06-07T16:45:38Z That’s because “empathy has some unfortunate features—it is parochial, narrow-minded and innumerate.” The New Yorker's Epic Fail On Innovation 2013-05-19T20:39:04Z Because brain images seem more rigorous than psychological measures, he said, there is a risk that parents and educators will interpret the study as definitive evidence that some children are doomed to be innumerate. Your child's brain on math: Don't bother? 2013-04-29T21:02:17Z Of course, the long-term demographic trends that, combined with a killer turnout game helped re-elect the president — despite Republicans’ innumerate overconfidence — still exist. Don’t count out angry white guys quite yet 2012-12-06T19:51:00Z But according to Dr Bruce Caldwell, from the Australian Bureau of Statistics, that doesn't mean you are illiterate or innumerate. Do 85 rich people have same wealth as half the world? 2014-03-19T00:40:07Z You remember the debt-ceiling debacle in August 2011, when the Treasury came within a whisker of defaulting on its obligations because of the anti-government, innumerate fanatics in the House of Representatives. An open letter to Tim Geithner on how to dodge the next debt crisis 2012-11-15T02:14:00Z But actually it captured in a nutshell what's wrong with most of our public discourse and almost all of our journalism: it's innumerate. Obama's data geeks add up to four more years 2012-11-11T00:01:10Z I’m not totally innumerate, but anything that looks like an equation makes me break out into a cold sweat and run screaming in the other direction.” Why Math is Like the Honey Badger: Nate Silver Ascendant 2012-11-08T02:15:00.237Z As I said. you are just too ignorant and innumerate to connect the dots....read some monetary history for crying out loud! The Federal Reserve launches QE3: The power of positive thinking 2012-09-13T21:11:28Z Stephan Meier, one of the study’s authors, reckons that the innumerate may be worse at managing their daily finances, leaving them with little room for manoeuvre when things get difficult. Subprime borrowing and innumeracy: The fear of all sums 2010-05-13T10:51:00Z Really, Sir, ’tis impossible to innumerate all your noble Acts that I have been Spectator of.—— Prefaces to Terence's Comedies and Plautus's Comedies (1694) |
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