I think society would be a lot better if BASIC math and statistics would be better understood.
How many times do you see a study posted here with N=23 and people say "the sample size is too small" when it's clearly not? How many people ask for a card deck change to change their luck? How many times do people read a poll like 49% +/- 3% vs. 43% +/- 3% and conclude the two candidates are statistically tied?
I could probably keep going with just examples from statistics/probability/combinatorics. But there are other examples of people misunderstanding math.
I mean I wonder how many people even understand that 0.999... = 1?
How many times do you see a study posted here with N=23 and people say "the sample size is too small" when it's clearly not? How many people ask for a card deck change to change their luck? How many times do people read a poll like 49% +/- 3% vs. 43% +/- 3% and conclude the two candidates are statistically tied?
I could probably keep going with just examples from statistics/probability/combinatorics. But there are other examples of people misunderstanding math.
I mean I wonder how many people even understand that 0.999... = 1?