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<blockquote data-quote="floridays" data-source="post: 5402164" data-attributes="member: 68849">Glad you asked, here&#039;s another review, take notice [USER=24302]@vantexan[/USER] You gonna keep beating him over the head with a book you obviously didn&#039;t read, where&#039;s your review? &quot;On page 94, Paulos bemoans the fact that people attribute combination to causation: &quot;...when people reason that if X cures Y, then lack of X must cause Y.&quot;But just a few pages later, on 108, he states: &quot;In short, there is an obvious connection between innumeracy and the poor mathematical education received by so many people. [...] Still, it&#039;s not the whole story, since there are many quite numerate people who have had little formal schooling.&quot;For those who are only as bright (or dim) as Paulos, he&#039;s skipping a step here - he&#039;s comparing students with a bad education to students with no education, which doesn&#039;t follow even his own logical rules he&#039;s set forth. He is trying to segue into other reasons for innumeracy, but fumbles, because to make the strongest logical statement, he should have said, &quot;Still, it&#039;s not the whole story, since there are many quite numerate people who have had such poor mathematical education.&quot;I&#039;m a linguist, not a mathematician, but there is a need for good logic in both fields. I believe I&#039;m not being nit-picky to say that his poor control over logic is a deterrent to finishing his book about the poor state of logic in America. Or maybe, it just proves his point even more strongly...So, I&#039;m on page 108 of 180, and I refuse to read any further. Additionally, I will never pick up any book by Paulos again, nor will I read anything he recommends.&quot; <a href="https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/869643.Innumeracy#" target="_blank">(less)</a></blockquote>

[QUOTE="floridays, post: 5402164, member: 68849"] Glad you asked, here's another review, take notice [USER=24302]@vantexan[/USER] You gonna keep beating him over the head with a book you obviously didn't read, where's your review? "On page 94, Paulos bemoans the fact that people attribute combination to causation: "...when people reason that if X cures Y, then lack of X must cause Y." But just a few pages later, on 108, he states: "In short, there is an obvious connection between innumeracy and the poor mathematical education received by so many people. [...] Still, it's not the whole story, since there are many quite numerate people who have had little formal schooling." For those who are only as bright (or dim) as Paulos, he's skipping a step here - he's comparing students with a bad education to students with no education, which doesn't follow even his own logical rules he's set forth. He is trying to segue into other reasons for innumeracy, but fumbles, because to make the strongest logical statement, he should have said, "Still, it's not the whole story, since there are many quite numerate people who have had [I]such poor mathematical education[/I]." I'm a linguist, not a mathematician, but there is a need for good logic in both fields. I believe I'm not being nit-picky to say that his poor control over logic is a deterrent to finishing his book about the poor state of logic in America. Or maybe, it just proves his point even more strongly... So, I'm on page 108 of 180, and I refuse to read any further. Additionally, I will never pick up any book by Paulos again, nor will I read anything he recommends." [URL='https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/869643.Innumeracy#'](less)[/URL] [/QUOTE]

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