Monday, May 10, 2010

Whenever I hear "I'm not good at math", it's like people telling "I can't read, and it's ok"

Granted, thinking statistically is tricky. We like to construct simple cause-and-effect stories to explain the world as we experience it. “You need to train in this way of thinking. It’s not easy,” says John Allen Paulos, a Temple University mathematician.

That’s precisely the point. We often say, rightly, that literacy is crucial to public life: If you can’t write, you can’t think. The same is now true in math. Statistics is the new grammar.

Whenever I hear "I'm not good at math", it's like people telling me "I can't read, and it's ok."

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