#MindBlown time: reportedly, today's #Yoof shun #CreditCards out of fear of going in to debt, while happily buying everything on retail "pay later" credit that costs a lot more. #Innumeracy in action?
https://www.theatlantic.com/culture/archive/2023/01/buy-now-pay-later-affirm-afterpay-credit-card-debt/672686/

"Whereas illiteracy is rightly viewed as a scourge that must be tackled, one can freely admit to being innumerate without suffering from any social embarrassment."

@yuanyi_z

How Rishi Sunak unleashed the anti-maths philistines - The Post
https://unherd.com/thepost/how-rishi-sunak-unleashed-the-anti-maths-philistines/

#innumeracy
#UnHerd

"[I]lliteracy is rightly viewed as a scourge that must be tackled, one can freely admit to being innumerate without suffering from any social embarrassment."

@yuanyi_z

How Rishi Sunak unleashed the anti-maths philistines - The Post
https://unherd.com/thepost/how-rishi-sunak-unleashed-the-anti-maths-philistines/

#innumeracy
#UnHerd

Imagine thinking this is how decimals work. Someone needs to return their high school diploma. #innumeracy #diesel #journalism #math 🤦‍♂️ https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/nova-scotia/diesel-price-nova-scotia-drop-1.6689794

recent example
in fr24.com app on iOS, if the third digit in the latitude or longitude is 0, it shows two digits

#innumeracy

@conradhackett
When we speak of #innumeracy in #AmericanEducation, we often speak of the inability of citizens to read a graph. It's math illiteracy.
As a retired math educator, I'm calling the #USHeathcareSystem expense v outcome debacle as an example of citizen innumeracy.
I'm glad to report that it is generational, and that younger folk can read this graph.
#UniversalHealthcare

This person’s math — “With the $44 billion he spent on Twitter, Elon could give each of the 8 billion people on Earth $5 billion and still have money left over” — might be off. Just sayin’.

I even checked with LITERAL back-of-the-napkin math.

https://www.joeydevilla.com/2022/11/18/your-math-might-be-a-little-off-dude/

#Twitter #BirdSite #math #innumeracy