Innumeracy in the Wild

Innumeracy in the Wild
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Total Pages : 315
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ISBN-10 : 9780190861094
ISBN-13 : 0190861096
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Download or read book Innumeracy in the Wild written by Ellen Peters and published by . This book was released on 2020 with total page 315 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Innumeracy in the Wild presents the logic, rules, and habits that highly numerate people use in decision making, which the less numerate can employ to choose better. This text offers a state-of-the-art review of the now sizeable body of psychological and applied findings that demonstrate the critical importance of numeracy in our world. With more than two decades of experience in the decision sciences, Ellen Peters demonstrates how intervention can foster adult numeric capacity, propel people to use numeric facts in decision making, and empower people with lower numeracy to reason better.


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